Google’s AI note-taking and analysis assistant NotebookLM now lets customers customise the tone of their Audio Overviews, that are podcasts with AI digital hosts that summarize and talk about paperwork shared with NotebookLM, comparable to course readings or authorized briefs.
When producing an Audio Overview, customers can now select whether or not they need their AI podcasts to be formatted as a “Deep Dive,” “Brief,” “Critique,” or “Debate.”
A Deep Dive options conversational dialogues the place two AI hosts unpack the subject with depth and questions. A Transient is a bite-sized overview that’s designed that can assist you shortly grasp the core concepts out of your sources.
A Critique encompasses a evaluate of your sources and constructive suggestions that can assist you enhance, whereas a Debate contains two AI hosts providing completely different views in your sources.
Every of the completely different codecs helps you to customise how lengthy or brief you need the AI podcast to be.
Along with customizable tones, Google can be bringing a extremely requested function to NotebookLM, which is the addition of recent voices for the AI podcasts.
The launch comes as Google has been constructing out NotebookLM over the previous few months. Just a few weeks in the past, the tech large rolled out Video Overviews, which permit customers to flip dense multimedia, comparable to uncooked notes, PDFs, and pictures, into digestible visible shows.
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NotebookLM not too long ago additionally received entry to a sequence of featured notebooks from varied authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that enable customers to discover a wide selection of subjects. And in Could, Google formally rolled out standalone NotebookLM apps for Android and iOS.
The brand new codecs for NotebookLM are launching in all languages and ought to be out there to all customers this week, Google says.
