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, equivalent 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 provides customers the flexibility to generate a podcast with AI digital hosts primarily based on paperwork they’ve shared with NotebookLM, equivalent to course readings or authorized briefs.
With this new functionality, NotebookLM is taking a extra visible strategy to serving to customers perceive completely different matters and concepts.
Google says customers can consider Video Overviews as a visible different to Audio Overviews. The function creates new visuals whereas pulling in photos, diagrams, quotes, and numbers from uploaded paperwork to elucidate the content material. Google says the function is nice for explaining information, demonstrating processes, and making summary ideas simpler to grasp.
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Customers can customise their Video Overviews, simply as they do with Audio Overviews. They’ll specify matters to concentrate on, point out their studying objectives, describe the target market, and extra.
They’ll ask easy questions like, “I do know nothing about this matter; assist me perceive the diagrams within the paper,” or particular ones like, “I’m already an knowledgeable on X and my staff works on Y; concentrate on Z.”
Video Overviews are actually 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 Experiences with a single click on.
As well as, customers can now multitask throughout the Studio panel. For instance, they’ll take heed to an Audio Overview whereas concurrently exploring a Thoughts Map or reviewing a Research Information.
