Google’s latest experiment brings NotebookLM’s best features to Search

Google's virtual-podcast Audio Overviews are coming to your Search results.

Jun 14, 2025 - 06:10

Google’s latest experiment brings NotebookLM’s best features to Search

Audio Overviews emerged as one of Google’s breakout AI hits, synthesizing virtual podcasts with a pair of hosts.
After debuting with NotebookLM and spreading to other Google services, the company is experimenting with Audio Overviews in Search.
For this initial test, access is limited to the US and only supports English.

Forgive us for sounding like a broken record by this point, but Google’s Audio Overviews have easily emerged as one of the company’s most genuinely impressive and useful AI tools. First debuting as part of the NotebookLM research assistant, Audio Overviews make text summaries a whole lot more accessible by crunching them down into what’s essentially a mini podcast, with a pair of virtual hosts chatting back and forth. We’ve seen Google expand access and bring Audio Overviews to more of its services since then, like Gemini this past spring, and now it’s coming to the granddaddy of them all: Search itself.

Google is offering users the opportunity to opt in to try anew Search Labs experiment, giving them early access to Audio Overviews in Search results.