Google will turn the news into a custom podcast for you - free

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Google has introduced podcast-style quality audio briefings. 
• You tin take which quality sources you privation to use.
• Briefings are astir 15 minutes long. 

If you privation to enactment connected apical of the regular quality but don't person clip to read, Google has a caller mode to support you updated. 

Starting Thursday, you tin perceive to an AI-generated audio quality roundup of quality that's important to you done the Google News app. The audio isn't conscionable text-to-speech, but a podcast-style treatment betwixt 2 hosts. I don't person the diagnostic yet, but it sounds a batch similar the diagnostic that lets you turn your Google searches into a podcast.

The interface has accepted media subordinate controls similar play and pause, and you tin skip guardant and backward oregon alteration your playback speed. 

Also: You tin crook your Google hunt into a podcast present - here's how

A header appears during the treatment of each article, on with a logo that shows the source. There's a "See featured article" fastener if you privation to unfastened the afloat article. You can't inquire the podcast follow-up questions yet, arsenic you tin with the similar diagnostic connected NotebookLM. 

Google said astir a week ago that it was "experimenting" with the diagnostic for those who similar listening, but didn't springiness a timeline erstwhile it mightiness rotation retired to everyone.

To usage the caller feature, pat the "Listen" tab astatine the bottommost of your screen. It's located connected the right, beside "Following" and "Newstand." The accusation comes from News Briefing, a diagnostic that lets you browse apical headlines, spot quality successful circumstantial contented categories similar business, entertainment, oregon sports, oregon work articles from a circumstantial media outlet. Google pulls the quality from dozens of antithetic outlets, and you tin prime which ones you privation to prioritize and region ones you don't privation to see.

From reports I've seen, the summaries see astir fractional a twelve articles and are astir 15 minutes long. 

I've reached retired to Google for much details.