The five-minute cap
Audio OverviewsGoes in: Audio Overview
The inverse hack, more dependable than the Shorter setting alone. Also works per-topic: one minute maximum on history, the rest on the current debate.
Be concise and stay within five minutes total. Spend no more than one minute on background. If forced to choose, keep the findings and cut the context.
How to use it
- 1In the Studio panel, choose Audio Overview and click Customize.
- 2Paste the prompt into the customization box.
- 3Generate — the hosts will follow your instructions.
Square brackets mark the parts you replace with your own topic or question.
More audio overviews prompts
- Give the hosts opposing jobsThe single biggest upgrade to the default podcast: one host explains, the other is paid to disagree. Adversarial roles produce actual discussion instead of the "so true" rhythm — and the Challenger tends to find the real weaknesses in your material.
- The two-voice quiz episodeA 15–20 minute professor-and-student quiz show from your sources: the student deliberately gets 3 of 10 wrong, corrections come with exact quotes, and the episode ends with a score and the most instructive mistakes.
- Define the listener, not the topic"Make it simple" produces condescension; a concrete listener produces calibration. Swap in whoever you need: a CEO with four minutes, a skeptical engineer, a hiring committee.
- The teach-a-newcomer episodeHosts explain everything as if teaching a smart 12-year-old — an analogy for every complex term, abstract ideas grounded in physical examples, and the emphasis on why it matters over what it is.