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Google's new AI-generated Talking Tours sound like the future of free guided city walks | TechRadar

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Google made it pretty clear with its recent Google Maps upgrades that it wants to be your virtual tour guide – and a new Talking Tours experiment takes those ambitions to the next level. Found in Google's Arts & Culture app for iOS and Android (you can also try it online), the Talking Tours feature gives you AI-generated commentary on big landmarks for 55 locations around the world. But what makes it feel like a glimpse of the future of walking tours is the ability to let you look around a 360-degree panorama, take a snap, and then have the AI feed you information about what's in the scene. Naturally, the audio guides are restricted to major tourist locations like the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul. We tested it on one of London's three locations and it did a solid, if fairly basic, job of filling us in on the scene around the

(Image credit: Google) Share Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Google has revealed an experimental travel feature called Talking Tours It provides AI-generated commentary on over 50 locations You can try it out in the Google Arts & Culture app or website Google made it pretty clear with its recent Google Maps upgrades that it wants to be your virtual tour guide - and a new Talking Tours experiment takes those ambitions to the next

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