{"id":15768,"date":"2026-02-21T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/?p=15768"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:58:52","slug":"google-docs-has-a-new-ai-feature-and-its-brilliant-you-can-listen-to-your-text-and-it-can-summarize-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/?p=15768","title":{"rendered":"Google Docs has a new AI feature and it&#8217;s brilliant: you can listen to your text, and it can summarize it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Docs has a new AI feature and it&#8217;s brilliant<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/audio-generation-in-google-docs\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.makeuseof.com\/audio-generation-in-google-docs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"you-can-now-listen-to-your-documents-in-google-docs\">You can now listen to your documents in Google Docs. Docs has learned how to speak<\/li>\n<li>AI summaries allow you to skim your documents with your ears. Docs is also learning what\u2019s worth saying<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape \">\n<div class=\"responsive-img  image-expandable  img-article-item\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/the-listen-to-document-summary-option-under-audio-under-the-tools-bar-in-google-docs.png\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;&quot;\">\n<figure><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/the-listen-to-document-summary-option-under-audio-under-the-tools-bar-in-google-docs.png?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\" media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/the-listen-to-document-summary-option-under-audio-under-the-tools-bar-in-google-docs.png?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/the-listen-to-document-summary-option-under-audio-under-the-tools-bar-in-google-docs.png?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\" media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/the-listen-to-document-summary-option-under-audio-under-the-tools-bar-in-google-docs.png?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/the-listen-to-document-summary-option-under-audio-under-the-tools-bar-in-google-docs.png?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/the-listen-to-document-summary-option-under-audio-under-the-tools-bar-in-google-docs.png?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" \/><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"w-promotion-offer promo-articlecontent3\/4depth w-promotion-widget\" data-popup=\"false\" data-sentinel-tracking=\"true\" data-promotion-zone=\"TmV3c2xldHRlciBTaWdudXA=\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<div class=\"promotion-offer-box\" data-style-path-url=\"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/assets\/promotions.ee612283.css\">\n<div data-guid=\"370665775adbdiag\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<div id=\"newsletter-message-large\" class=\"newsletter-promotion-large\">\n<div id=\"newsletter-form\" class=\"newsletter-section\">\n<div class=\"w-input-group\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Docs has a new AI feature and it&#8217;s brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/audio-generation-in-google-docs\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.makeuseof.com\/audio-generation-in-google-docs\/<\/a> You can now listen to your documents in Google Docs. Docs has learned how to speak AI summaries allow you to skim your documents with your ears. Docs is also learning what\u2019s worth saying &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,37],"tags":[524],"class_list":["post-15768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-models-and-enterprises","tag-google-docs"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}