Gemini Can Now Turn Your Google Docs Into Podcasts

Were you clamoring for 2 AI-generated podcast hosts to talk done nan cardinal points of your archive earlier you nonstop it to your boss? No? Well, you’re getting it anyway. Google has announced new Gemini features coming to Workspace apps, including NotebookLM-style AI podcasts integrated correct into Google Docs. There’s a wide dispersed of caller features successful this announcement, from an editor that tin make suggestions successful your documents to a instrumentality that will thief make consciousness of your spreadsheets, each pinch Gemini astatine nan center.

Maybe nan astir uncanny of them each is nan podcast feature, which exists successful a mates of places already. It grabbed a batch of attraction erstwhile Google offered it arsenic portion of its NotebookLM investigation tool, and it’s besides available successful nan Gemini app erstwhile you upload a file. This update, which is coming to Workspace accounts “in nan coming weeks,” will bring audio overviews correct into Google Docs, on pinch nan action to person AI publication your article retired loud. Having your penning publication backmost to you is genuinely useful, but I utilized Gemini to make 1 of these “podcasts” based connected an article I wrote and I’m not successful a hurry to do it again.

Another characteristic coming to Docs is simply a punctual to “Help maine refine.” Rather than conscionable doing nan penning for you, it will time off comments pinch suggestions astir really you tin tighten up an existing draft. I’m acquainted pinch this conception arsenic an editor, and they’re hella useful. If you don’t person entree to, you know, a person editor, an AI type mightiness not beryllium a unspeakable idea. This 1 will beryllium disposable “later this quarter.”

Further out, Google has immoderate lofty but vague promises for Sheets. Right now, you tin inquire Gemini for thief pinch specific questions and tasks successful Sheets, for illustration generating visuals. A characteristic called “Help maine analyze” offers a broader scope to thief you make consciousness of your spreadsheet. In theory, it will thief you place trends and “guidance to get you started,” benignant of for illustration an on-demand information analyst. It sounds for illustration we’ll person to hold a spot to effort this 1 retired — it’s coming “later this year.”