One of the biggest new features in Samsung’s One UI 7 based on Android 15 is the Now Bar with the Now Brief, and in the upcoming One UI 8 based on Android 16 this may be getting a very interesting upgrade.
According to a teardown of the One UI 8 firmware, you’ll be able to listen to your Now Brief too, not just read it. This will be called Listen Brief, naturally.
Listen Brief code snippets in One UI 8
Now Brief offers a summary of your morning, afternoon, and evening, including weather, calendar events, traffic updates, and news. And with Listen Brief, you’ll get all that in audio form.
You’ll be able to choose between Samsung’s and Google’s text-to-speech engines, as well as pause, play again, and stop the briefing audio whenever you want.
Of course, Now Brief is still missing a ton of possibly useful stuff like sports scores, email integration, package tracking, and many more, and we do hope all of those get added at some later point.