Google introduced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out Video Overviews to NotebookLM, its AI-based note-taking and analysis assistant. First launched at Google I/O in Could, Video Overviews enable customers to flip dense multimedia, comparable to uncooked notes, PDFs, and pictures, into digestible visible displays.
Beforehand, the service took an audio strategy to serving to customers perceive supplies with Audio Overviews, a function that offers customers the power to generate a podcast with AI digital hosts based mostly on paperwork they’ve shared with NotebookLM, comparable to course readings or authorized briefs.
With this new functionality, NotebookLM is taking a extra visible strategy to serving to customers perceive totally different matters and concepts.
Google says customers can consider Video Overviews as a visible various to Audio Overviews. The function creates new visuals whereas pulling in photographs, diagrams, quotes, and numbers from uploaded paperwork to clarify the content material. Google says the function is nice for explaining information, demonstrating processes, and making summary ideas simpler to know.
Customers can customise their Video Overviews, simply as they do with Audio Overviews. They will specify matters to concentrate on, point out their studying targets, describe the audience, and extra.
They will ask easy questions like, “I know nothing about this topic; help me understand the diagrams in the paper,” or particular ones like, “I’m already an expert on X and my team works on Y; focus on Z.”
Video Overviews at the moment are rolling out to all customers in English, with assist for extra languages coming quickly, Google says.
Google additionally introduced that it’s rolling out updates to NotebookLM’s Studio panel. Customers can now create and retailer a number of studio outputs of the identical sort in a single pocket book. Plus, customers will now see 4 tiles on the high of the Studio panel for creating Audio Overviews, Video Overviews, Thoughts Maps, and Studies with a single click on.
As well as, customers can now multitask throughout the Studio panel. For instance, they will hearken to an Audio Overview whereas concurrently exploring a Thoughts Map or reviewing a Research Information.
