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I had an idea this morning for a personalised "podcast" that could read out e.g. the weather in your area, any new and important emails, the headlines and first paragraph of top stories from your favourite sources and notifications from social media.

I think this is the missing thing that was needed to make this viable.

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> I had an idea this morning for a personalised "podcast" that could read out e.g. the weather in your area, any new and important emails, the headlines and first paragraph of top stories from your favourite sources and notifications from social media.

Google Assistant already has all the pieces of that (maybe not all the social media connections one might want, I haven't looked much at that), and the ability to string them together.

Try this:

Hey Google, Tell me about my Day.

and

Hey Google, Tell me the news.

There's a way you can get the news added to your daily briefing (the first trigger), but I can't remember how now.

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