- Google Docs presents a new audio overview functionality
- Audio previews can read your documents aloud or summarize them as a podcast
- The tool aims to help users improve their writing and activate multitasking
Reading your writing aloud is one of the best ways to discover errors or clumsiness that could use a modification. But as a writer, you might have a blind spot for your own typing faults or be too close to what you wrote to note where he needs a rewriting (or a pure and simple cut).
So if you don’t always have a friend at hand to help you, Google will start jumping with a new overview for Google Docs.
Audio previews are already part of the Google NoteBooklm platform. Now Google sends this “natural sound” narration to Google Docs to read your documents aloud.
The objective is that the user hears audio previews Read you a document, discovering each false word and a stowed phrase that you have not heard when you wrote it.
Google also includes a second option in addition to obtaining an AI recitation. You can hear what the company calls a “podcast style preview” of the text, which just means a collection of strengths instead of each word. For texts of more than a dozen pages and full of research, it could be of great help.
Alas, this is not the type of Podcast style review available on Notebooklm, which will generate a real conversation between two AI voices discussing everything you have downloaded.
Recite AI
Google claims that the voices will be indistinguishable from a real human, and if it is the same model of AI voice used by notebooklm, it is not far from the truth. Of course, the badly pronounced words, in particular the appropriate names that they had not heard before, are a very human oible when they read aloud. However, this may not have much importance if it also captures your real mistakes.
Functionality also has a major advantage over accessibility because the voices of AI, the reading text, was a boon for people with altered targeting or other reading difficulties. An improved and more natural voice to read Google Docs would only make the text more accessible. In addition, it could help all those who have a lot. You can “read” a long report by driving, folding the detergent or doing everything that occupies the eyes.
It is not a characteristic that shakes the world, but it is the type of improvement in quality of life to a widely used product, Google Docs, that AI is particularly suitable for providing. It is difficult to argue that using AI to improve productivity software to make it more adaptive is not necessary.
Everything to rationalize the way you polish your writing will be a draw. Not that Google is unique in this pursuit, because Microsoft and Apple have experienced an increase in similar AI of their text processing.
Despite this, Google Docs is the choice of millions of people, students and professionals, and this decision makes the product much easier to respect.
