Audio Overviews in Search builds on AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries Google supplies for certain Google Search queries. With Audio Overviews, Google is targeting people who are auditory learners or want more accessible ways to get information.

While you listen, the audio player stays docked in your results page, showing clickable links to the sources the AI pulled from. You can keep browsing, tap into related articles, or just listen and absorb. If you like what you hear, you can give it a thumbs up. If it's egregiously wrong, the thumbs down is there too.

The experimental tool, now available through Google’s Search Labs, uses the company’s Gemini AI models to create audio recaps narrated by two AI-generated voices