

I’ve worked to make this list as comprehensive and diverse as possible. They might even help keep you entertained on laundry days as well. These 40 educational podcasts are all great shows that’ll help you learn more, thus adding more productive hours to your day. In fact, any time you’re doing something less than mentally stimulating - driving, walking to class, doing your laundry - you can probably pop in your headphones and listen to a podcast at the same time. Google is clearly betting that lifting up the entire community will help its own services in the long run.Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to stay fit and learn new things? If you’re looking for a way to make your gym time productive for your mind as well as your body, then podcasts are your answer. It's simultaneously starting a program that will help grow "diversity and perspectives" in podcasts with an independent advisory board as its guide, so you may see more shows from underrepresented groups as well as fresh ideas that improve the podcasting business. However, the company isn't shy about seeing this as a way to spur adoption of podcasts as a whole. Google didn't have anything to share about an iOS version when we asked, but it did hope for the app to eventually work everywhere its products do. The app will also offer proactive suggestions for material related to a given episode in case you want to dive deeper on a given subject.


If you don't mind spoilers, this could be a time-saver. It'll not only read along with a podcast in one of numerous languages thanks to automatic transcription, but will let you "see" what's coming in the episode you're listening to thanks to that transcript. The tech giant is planning to introduce multiple AI-driven features in the months ahead. However, the big trick is its upcoming use of AI - this isn't just a straightforward audio player. As you'd expect, it includes access to a vast library of podcasts (over 2 million) and will sync across virtually everything Google, including Assistant, Home speakers and search.

You won't have to make that awkward choice from now on - the company has released a dedicated Google Podcasts app. You've had to either listen in Google Play Music (not ideal if you hate merging audio sources) or use a not-well-publicized player built into Android's search feature. Google hasn't had a direct answer to Apple's dedicated Podcasts app.
