NotebookLM is considered one of Google’s lesser-used AI merchandise however it launched a characteristic that’s turning into more and more widespread — Audio Overviews. The corporate already introduced it over to Gemini and plans to add the characteristic to Google Docs in the following few months too. Till now, Audio Overviews has been an English-only device however as of this week, it’s accessible in over 50 languages.
The NotebookLM platform is all about placing collectively notebooks of data and completely different sources and utilizing LLMs to work together with them. Audio Overviews is mainly a flowery abstract device — it helps you to generate audio summaries of your chosen sources which can be offered in the model of a podcast with two AI hosts.
Although you might all the time use supply materials in any language to generate an Overview, the audio content material was beforehand solely accessible in English. Now, you may simply swap to Spanish, French or any of the 50+ languages Google has added this week.
This may make it very easy to devour nearly any content material with out having to get hold of translations in your most popular language. You possibly can pay attention to an Audio Overview of a brand-new Japanese analysis paper that hasn’t been translated but, or devour super-niche English content material that hasn’t been translated to Spanish. This additionally combines the characteristic’s unique good thing about summarizing and simplifying content material so you may get the gist of one thing actually lengthy or complicated in a a lot faster and extra accessible format.
Since NotebookLM is marketed primarily as a research device, it additionally happens to me that this characteristic may very well be nice for language studying. Consuming acquainted content material in your goal language is a extremely accessible approach to begin boosting your comprehension expertise.
For studying, as an example, it’s actually frequent for individuals to choose up the “Harry Potter” books in their goal language as a result of everybody is aware of the story. For listening, you may take no matter form of written info you’re acquainted with and convert it right into a podcast in your goal language to pay attention alongside to. A brand new “Output Language” choice has additionally been added so you may simply swap between languages at any time and create multilingual content material.
Google’s blog post concerning the update focuses on NotebookLM particularly, and it appears the extra languages aren’t accessible for Gemini but. Should you don’t need to wait, NotebookLM is obtainable without spending a dime and anybody on Google’s One AI Premium plan additionally has entry to NotebookLM Plus.
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