Here’s why you should be excited about Audio Overviews coming to Google Search

• Google is testing the NotebookLM feature Audio Overviews in Search
• The feature will offer short, AI-generated audio summaries for certain queries.
• The feature uses Gemini models to deliver podcast-style explanations with clickable links.

I've been a fan of the Audio Overviews feature in Google's NotebookLM since I first experimented with it last year. Now, it's coming to Google Search, currently only as a test in the Labs, but it brings a more bite-sized version of the AI-generated "podcasts" that I like in NotebookLM.

Once you’ve opted in through Labs, you’ll start seeing a little prompt on some search results pages saying, “Generate Audio Overview.” Tap that, wait about 30 to 40 seconds, and out comes a compact audio clip of around five minutes, sometimes less, that explains what you looked up in the form of two AI-generated voices having a discussion. Not ...