Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

"Doc casts" now available in 50 languages

Breaking language barriers for investigators, journalists, and anyone drowning in PDFs

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Henk van Ess
Apr 30, 2025
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Google's Audio Overviews can now generate "doc casts" in 50 languages—transforming any uploaded PDF into a narrated, multilingual summary in just minutes. For web researchers, that capability is pure gold.

Rely on this tool to breeze through stacks of documents that are interesting—but not essential—to read cover-to-cover. Two AI hosts will chatter away …

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