Google today has launched the Podcasts Android application and it comes packed with AI-based personalized recommendations, discover and listen to favorite podcasts. Google is also partnering with industry experts to improve diversity in podcast creation and transform podcasting for the better.
It also comes integrated with the Google Assistant across your devices and with Google Podcasts, you can listen and subscribe to any podcast, including popular shows like The Daily, Cyrus Says, Modern Love, Lage der Nation, The Bill Simmons Podcast, and many more. Google Podcasts uses AI to offer recommendations based on your listening habits.
Google Podcasts seamlessly syncs across a variety of Google products, including the Google Assistant. So you can easily play the Podcast you are listening from the phone and resume it on your Google Home later. Google also mentioned that it will integrate Google Podcasts into more Google products. As for those who are hosting the Podcast, it will include prompt Google to index new podcasts as quickly as possible, generate a direct link to your podcast, download the Google Podcasts brand assets for sharing on your website, track analytics that come from Google Podcasts.
Google says that it will introduce AI based features like speech-to-text technology, automatic subtitling, Google Translate, subtitles in a wide variety of languages, and more. You can download the Google Podcasts app directly from the Play Store.