All of the things that you have posted to NotebookLM will be discussed by two AI hosts.
Using the most recent version for its artificial intelligence-powered research application NotebookLM, Google is able to transform the resources you wish to pore over into an audio discussion similar to that of a podcast. This new function, which is called Audio Overview, gathers information from papers that you have supplied and then simulates a “deep dive” conversation between two AI hosts. Google says that the hosts will be able to uncover links between different topics and even banter back and forth. This is in addition to the fact that they will be able to summarize your sources. Based on the sample that the business provided along with its announcement, the artificial intelligence hosts sounded human enough to be able to listen to them. However, it was still possible to detect that the voices were generated by AI due to the inflections of their voices and the peculiar pronunciations of certain words.
The fact that the feature is still in the testing phase is something that Google acknowledges, so it does have some restrictions. Due to the fact that the hosts are only able to communicate in English at this moment, they may occasionally provide information that is not valid. As a result, you will need to double verify your material to ensure that you have not just learned anything that is not true. Additionally, you are unable to interrupt the hosts while they are speaking at this time, and it still takes NotebookLM some minutes to generate an Audio Overview for notebooks that include significant files. In spite of these constraints, the product manager for Google Labs, Biao Wang, wrote in the announcement article for the feature that his team is “excited to bring audio into NotebookLM.” He stated that they are aware that certain individuals learn and remember better by listening to talks.
When the business first introduced NotebookLM in 2023, it was conceived of as a digital assistant that would allow users to pose queries on the documents that were uploaded. Google made the announcement in June of this year that NotebookLM has officially begun operating on Gemini 1.5 Pro, which has provided it with new features and tools. Additionally, NotebookLM has grown all over the world to more than 200 nations and territories.