If it wasn’t overheard in a podcast, it never happened. That’s Adobe‘s thinking, apparently, after it announced that its Acrobat, Acrobat Studio, and Adobe Express products would get a new AI-powered feature, plus a few others. If you have a PDF, the software company’s artificial intelligence will turn it into a podcast.
If the concept sounds familiar, that’s because Google rolled out the same thing for NotebookLM back in 2024. That implementation was popular enough to prompt the release of a standalone app for the folks who used it. Adobe is obviously hoping for similar success as it rolls out more AI features in its products.
Three Acrobats and a Mic
The newest update adds a few functions to the company’s Studio package, all of which are AI-related. Uploading a document into PDF Spaces inside Studio lets users “pull the most compelling information from a collection of different PDFs, decks and web pages and create an editable outline and presentation from their documents.”
AI Chat within Acrobat Studios’ software environment allows for PDF-related tasks to be completed using a natural language interface — basically, users are prompting the company’s AI to do the bits of the job they’re annoyed with. Removing and adding content, text, and passwords is done via the Chat interface.
Then there’s the podcast generation feature, which does… exactly what it says it does. Instead of all that boring old reading, Adobe’s PDF Spaces can “summarize the information into an engaging audio file to get up to speed quickly or digest complex information more effectively from anywhere.”
Less related to AI functions is the ability to better share in-progress Adobe Acrobat documents with others on the team. That’s not especially noteworthy, since collaboration functions like this exist everywhere. It bears mentioning, though, since it involves human rather than computer input on your all-important sales deck.
