{"id":10381,"date":"2025-08-19T23:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10381\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:29:10","slug":"google-gemini-can-now-read-your-docs-aloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10381\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Gemini can now read your Docs aloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google Docs will now let you generate an audio version of your documents using AI. In a post <a href=\"https:\/\/workspaceupdates.googleblog.com\/2025\/08\/listen-to-documents-using-gemini-google-docs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcing the rollout<\/a>, Google says you can customize Gemini\u2019s AI audio output with different voices and playback speeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This feature isn\u2019t just for a document\u2019s creator, as Google says readers can access a shared document\u2019s AI-generated audio by selecting the <strong>Tool<\/strong> dropdown menu and selecting <strong>Audio<\/strong> <strong> &gt; Listen to this tab<\/strong>. Authors can also add a customizable audio button directly in a document by choosing <strong>Insert &gt; Audio<\/strong>, which readers can click to start listening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google announced plans to let you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/645986\/gemini-can-now-turn-your-google-docs-into-podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">turn your documents into AI podcasts<\/a> in April, but this feature seems a lot handier if you just want to listen to what you\u2019ve written. You can only generate audio versions of documents in English and on desktop devices for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google is rolling out audio in Docs to Workspace users with business, enterprise, or education plans, as well as users who have AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google Docs will now let you generate an audio version of your documents using AI. In a post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[291,1307,18,823,19,17,5,753,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-10381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-apps","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}