Google is utilizing AI to make faux podcasts out of your notes

It’s meant to construct on NotebookLM’s current options that allow 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 type 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. Throughout the 10-minute-long overview, the 2 hosts had a lighthearted dialogue about how Thomas Edison wasn’t the one particular person behind the lightbulb and that “in the long run, it’s truly a narrative about teamwork, making the dream work.”

The hosts might virtually 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.” A few of the writing wasn’t precisely what a human would say, both, with one AI host calling platinum “bling bling steel.”

The characteristic makes studying about analysis extra participating, however I’m questioning whether or not the hosts would preserve their lighthearted, considerably jokey tone when discussing extra severe matters, like most cancers or conflict. There’s fairly a little bit of filler throughout the dialog as nicely, so it may not be one of the best ways to shortly and clearly distill all of your info.

That’s one thing Google mentions in its announcement, because it says the characteristic 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 might take a number of minutes to generate a podcast-like dialogue, and it’s solely out there in English. Like many AI instruments, it isn’t at all times correct.

You may check out the characteristic 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 subject simply so I can hear what the AI podcasters must say.