It’s meant to construct on NotebookLM’s current options that assist you to work together with all of your notes, transcripts, and different analysis paperwork. The app already makes use of Google’s Gemini AI mannequin to assist summarize your analysis, and that is kind of like an audio model of that.
Google isn’t making issues up when it says the AI hosts will “banter” with one another, both. When making an attempt out Audio Overview for myself, I plugged in one of many pattern notebooks in regards to the invention of the lightbulb, and the outcomes had been… a bit uncanny. Through the 10-minute-long overview, the 2 hosts had a lighthearted dialogue about how Thomas Edison wasn’t the one individual behind the lightbulb and that “ultimately, it’s truly a narrative about teamwork, making the dream work.”
The hosts may nearly be mistaken for human podcasters, from the way in which they emphasised “bam!” when tossing it in the course of a sentence to utilizing fashionable phrasing like “messy as heck.” There have been nonetheless a few quirks, as I observed the AI spelling out sure phrases and phrases, like “P-L-U-S.” Among the writing wasn’t precisely what a human would say, both, with one AI host calling platinum “bling bling steel.”
The function makes studying about analysis extra participating, however I’m questioning whether or not the hosts would keep their lighthearted, considerably jokey tone when discussing extra severe matters, like most cancers or battle. There’s fairly a little bit of filler in the course of the dialog as nicely, so it may not be one of the simplest ways to shortly and clearly distill all of your data.
That’s one thing Google mentions in its announcement, because it says the function is “not a complete or goal view of a subject, however merely a mirrored image” of your notes.
There are another limitations to Audio Overview as nicely, as Google says it may take a number of minutes to generate a podcast-like dialogue, and it’s solely accessible in English. Like many AI instruments, it isn’t at all times correct.
You may check out the function for your self by opening up a pocket book in NotebookLM. From there, choose the Pocket book information within the bottom-right nook of the display screen, after which hit Load beneath the “Audio Overview” heading. I do know I’m going to be performing some analysis on a random matter simply so I can hear what the AI podcasters should say.
