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 focus on paperwork shared with NotebookLM, equivalent 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,” “Temporary,” “Critique,” or “Debate.”
A Deep Dive options conversational dialogues the place two AI hosts unpack the subject with depth and questions. A Temporary is a bite-sized overview that’s designed that will help you shortly grasp the core concepts out of your sources.
A Critique incorporates a evaluation of your sources and constructive suggestions that will help you enhance, whereas a Debate consists of two AI hosts providing completely different views in your sources.
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Every of the completely different codecs allows 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 characteristic 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. A couple of weeks in the past, the tech large rolled out Video Overviews, which permit customers to flip dense multimedia, equivalent to uncooked notes, PDFs, and pictures, into digestible visible displays.
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NotebookLM not too long ago additionally acquired entry to a collection of featured notebooks from numerous authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that permit customers to discover a big selection of subjects. And in Might, Google formally rolled out standalone NotebookLM apps for Android and iOS.
The brand new codecs for NotebookLM are launching in all languages and must be out there to all customers this week, Google says.
