Adobe Acrobat uses artificial intelligence to turn your PDF files into podcasts

Adobe has added new creative AI features to Acrobat that aim to help you quickly edit and summarize PDF files in audio and video formats. These updates include chat-based editing and the ability to create custom podcasts and presentations based on your documents, which are now available in Acrobat studio — An AI-powered document workspace app that’s different from Adobe’s basic PDF reader.

The new podcast creation feature provides podcast-style audio summaries of any documents you feed them, including notes, meeting transcripts, lengthy reports, and educational guides. While Adobe has Special voice AI model,Generate Podcast currently leverages Microsoft’s GPT transcription model and Google’s audio model. Adobe says this may change in the future as it continues to test technologies. Google NotebookLM search tool He has similar Audio overviews featurealthough Adobe Acrobat is likely more familiar to anyone who works with PDF documents.

For a more visual summary, Acrobat Studio users can ask the built-in AI assistant to create a presentation that focuses on specific insights in the source documents. Create Presentation leverages Adobe Express tools to provide a selection of presentation designs. You can select these elements to automate the entire process, or edit any part of the resulting presentation that doesn’t work for you.

The Acrobat AI Assistant now also supports editing PDF documents using chat prompts Similar update to Express last year. Acrobat Studio users can add signatures, remove pages, text, comments, and images, replace words and phrases, and more by describing the changes they want to make.