NotebookLM is my favorite learning tool, and I use it almost every day to learn something new.
When I first used it, I thought it was the best overall AI-based learning tool one could ever build.
However, it didn’t take long for the euphoria to settle, as I came across various other unique AI tools that do many things better than NotebookLM, including one from Google.
I recently learned about another exciting one that feels like a spiritual sibling to NotebookLM.
Although not as feature-packed as NotebookLM, it has almost perfected the art of AI-generated podcasts.
When I first tried it, it felt a lot like NotebookLM’s Audio Overview, but better. It didn’t surprise me because the app’s only focus is AI-generated audio podcasts.
It’s so good that I keep thinking about what if NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature worked the same way.
This thought didn’t come out of nowhere. The people who made NotebookLM have made an AI audio podcast app called Huxe.
I use Huxe every morning, and I’m obsessed with it.
Huxe is a genius app that transforms your daily information
Huxe is an AI radio and podcast app, but the way it generates content daily for users is where its true brilliance lies.
The first thing I did after installing the app on my phone was spend a good five minutes setting up the app. While five minutes might sound too long for setting up an AI app, it’s worth spending that time for what you get after that.
I linked my email address and calendars to the Huxe app. This was the first thing I did, and by doing so, I allowed the app to view my emails and give me daily audio briefings based on the emails I received.
The audio briefings don’t feel like AI-generated, and that’s not even the most impressive part.
Not only does Huxe summarize your emails, schedule, and interests into audio briefings, but it also listens to the users.
So, when you listen to Huxe summarize a news piece you received in your inbox, you can ask questions to understand something more complex about the news.
It works exactly like NotebookLM’s Interactive mode. Like NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews, the Huxe app also has a Join button that allows you to ask questions during the audio briefings.
It also allows you to customize daily briefs. For example, if you want daily audio briefs about stock markets, you can manually add that from settings. You can pick any custom topic that interests you.
You can also link your Twitter account to the Huxe app, just like I did. This will allow Huxe to include your X feed content in your daily audio briefing.
If your email inbox and X feed content are boring, you’ll find the Huxe app equally interesting and useful to get quick information about what’s happening around the world.
If you are clueless about what interests you or what topic you want the latest information on, you can check the Discover tab in the Huxe app.
You’ll find different categories, like News, Tech, AI, Science, Health, Politics, Sports, Business, and many more.
The Discover tab also shows you various subreddits that you may find interesting, and topics from X.
If you have any specific sources in mind, you can add the URLs directly as sources. You can use a Reddit post, RSS feeds, text, and X posts.
You can also type a prompt like “What’s the latest AI breakthroughs?” in the Huxe app, and it’ll research online and generate a podcast covering all the latest breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence.
Whatever topic you choose to hear about from the Huxe app, they are all interactive, which means you can join the AI-generated podcast at any moment to ask questions.
Huxe isn’t perfect, but I can almost bet it’s onto something
Even the sun has spots, and so does the Huxe app. Upon trying the app, I found it annoying that it doesn’t allow me to explore anything else while listening to a briefing.
So, this means you are stuck on the playing screen. You need to pause the audio and exit the playing screen to explore the different categories in the Discover tab.
I also tried getting briefings from various subreddits, but couldn’t get it to work. Upon selecting a subreddit, the app said it ran into an issue.
It doesn’t seem to have native Android Auto support, either.
These are the only three weaknesses I observed after using the app for several days. For an app that’s only a few months old, that’s no less than an achievement.
I am optimistic that it’ll fix these issues because I have no reason not to, especially given how brilliantly the team behind the Huxe app has pulled off something like this.
After using it extensively, I can sense that Huxe is onto something brilliant.
Huxe is my new favorite way of listening to AI
What I love about Huxe is that there is very little effort that you need to put in to get daily briefings on something that interests you.
After you set everything up, it pulls content from sources you link to every day and presents it to you in the audio format. It doesn’t repeat the same content.
So, if you plant the seeds well, you’ll enjoy the fruits — no more effort is required.
Huxe shows how democratization of AI is done, and I have become a fan. It is, hands down, the best way to listen to AI, and my favorite one.