- Google is testing AI audio overviews in Chrome for Android.
- This feature will be available as part of Chrome’s Read Aloud functionality.
- AI audio overviews could convert text from any webpage into interactive NotebookLM-style podcasts for improved learning.
Google is steadily building up the number of touchpoints where we interact with AI by default. Search, one of Google’s most used products, has already been canopied by AI overviews for a text-based summary of search results. If you prefer hearing the results instead of reading them, Google is also testing “Audio overviews” in Search, offering a gist of the results in a podcast-like format, exactly like NotebookLM, and this feature now appears to be also pushing its way into the Chrome browser for Android.
Google was recently spotted testing Audio overviews inside Chrome, and it can be used to convert text from any webpage into a podcast. The AI audio overviews appear to be integrated within Chrome’s “Listen to this page.” Instead of reading the actual contents of the webpage, the Read Aloud function creates a summary of the contents using AI and then plays that as an interactive podcast involving two speakers.