Gemini can now turn your Google Docs into podcasts

More Gemini successful much places.

Were you clamoring for 2 AI-generated podcast hosts to speech done the cardinal points of your papers 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 close into Google Docs. There’s a wide dispersed of caller features successful this announcement, from an exertion that tin marque suggestions successful your documents to a instrumentality that volition assistance marque consciousness of your spreadsheets, each with Gemini astatine the center.

Maybe the astir uncanny of them each is the 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 probe tool, and it’s besides available successful the Gemini app erstwhile you upload a file. This update, which is coming to Workspace accounts “in the coming weeks,” volition bring audio overviews close into Google Docs, on with the enactment to person AI work your nonfiction retired loud. Having your penning work backmost to you is genuinely useful, but I utilized Gemini to make 1 of these “podcasts” based connected an nonfiction I wrote and I’m not successful a hurry to bash it again.

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

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