- Google Docs is presenting a new function of general audio description
- Audio descriptions can read their documents aloud or summarize as a podcast
- The tool aims to help users improve their writing and enable multitasking
Reading your writing aloud is one of the best ways to discover any error or discomfort that some edition can use. But as a writer, he can have a blind spot for his own typographic errors or be too close to what he wrote to notice where he needs some rewriting (or direct cut).
So, if you don't always have a friend available to help, Google will start jumping with a new function of general audio description for Google Docs.
Audio descriptions are already part of Google's Notebooklm platform. Now, Google is sending that “natural sound” narration to Google Docs to read your documents out loud.
The goal is for the user to listen to audio descriptions read a document, discovering each word with misstate and forced phrase that he did not hear when he wrote it.
Google also includes a second option in addition to obtaining a recitation of AI. You can listen to what the company calls a “general description of podcast style” of the text, which means only a collection of the most prominent aspects instead of each word. For texts that have more than a dozen pages and full of research, that could be of great help.
Unfortunately, this is not the type of podcast style review in Notebooklm, which will generate a real conversation between two voices of AI that discuss everything that has risen.
Reciting AI
Google affirms that the voices will be indistinguishable from a real human, and if it is the same voice model of the Notebooklm, that is not far from the truth. Of course, the words of erroneous pronouncement, especially their own nouns that have not heard before, is a very human weak when reads aloud. Even so, that may not matter much if you also catch your real mistakes.
The feature also has a great accessibility benefit, since the AI VOICs reading text has been a blessing for people with deteriorated vision or other reading difficulties. An updated and more natural voice to read Google Docs would only make the text more accessible. In addition, I could help anyone who has many things. I could 'read' a long report while driving, folding the clothes or doing anything else that keeps your eyes busy.
This is not a characteristic of the world, but it is the type of quality of life for a widely used product, Google Docs, which AI is unique to provide. It is difficult to argue that using AI to improve productivity software so that it is more adaptive is unnecessary.
Anything to rationalize how to polish your writing will be a raffle. However, it is not that Google is unique in this search, since both Microsoft and Apple have been experiencing with a similar increase in their word processors.
Even so, Google Docs is the option for millions of people, students and professionals equally, and this movement makes the product much easier to follow.
