The hour-long version
Audio OverviewsGoes in: Audio Overview
Combine with the Longer length setting: banning summarization changes the hosts' objective, and hour-long episodes from a dense document become normal. Commuters live on this one.
Do not summarize. Go through every section in detail, discussing every concept, example and number in the sources. The listener has time and wants depth over brevity.
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.