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

It’s meant to construct on NotebookLM’s present options that enable you 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 have 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 individual behind the lightbulb and that “ultimately, it’s really 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 midst 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 metallic.”

The function makes studying about analysis extra partaking, however I’m questioning whether or not the hosts would preserve their lighthearted, considerably jokey tone when discussing extra severe subjects, like most cancers or conflict. There’s fairly a little bit of filler through the dialog as effectively, so it won’t be the easiest way to rapidly and clearly distill all of your info.

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 effectively, as Google says it may take a number of minutes to generate a podcast-like dialogue, and it’s solely obtainable in English. Like many AI instruments, it isn’t at all times correct.

You possibly can 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 need to say.