Google has added a brand new function within the Gemini cellular apps, which makes it potential for customers to play Audio Overviews, which was first added to NotebookLM, and was later delivered to Gemini earlier this yr. Nonetheless, the performance was such that whereas Gemini app customers may add a file to generate a podcast-style audio dialog, the app didn’t assist enjoying the mentioned audio file. Customers needed to go to the AI chatbot’s web site to play it. To repair it, the tech large has added an inline media participant within the app.

First spotted by 9to5Google, the brand new function is now obtainable to all Gemini customers globally, together with these on the free tier of the platform. So, if customers now add a file to generate an Audio Overview, they’ll see a brand new interactive media participant pop up on the display screen that may permit them to play the file.

Media participant within the Gemini app

As seen within the picture above, the brand new media participant comes with a searching for bar, play/pause button, buttons to rewind and skip 10 seconds, in addition to an choice to decelerate or velocity up the speech between 05x and 2x. Moreover, a obtain button additionally lets customers obtain the file and play it regionally through a third-party app.

Notably, with Audio Overviews, Gemini can generate a podcast-style audio dialogue between two AI hosts ( a male and a feminine). These hosts conversationally talk about the subject, add their reactions, and even provide extra info, which is probably going sourced from the Web. Producing an Audio Overview can take as much as 5 minutes, relying on the dimensions of the file and the size of the textual content.

Audio Overviews gained popularity final yr when the function first appeared in Google’s NotebookLM. Since then, the corporate has expanded the function to NotebookLM’s app, Gemini on web and mobile apps, and there are rumours that the Mountain View-based tech large can be testing it for AI Overviews in Search.