Google Adds Video Overviews To Notebooklm

NotebookLM, nan Google investigation instrumentality that gained notoriety for its AI-generated podcasts, is introducing a characteristic called Video Overviews. As nan sanction suggests, this instrumentality automatically creates videos connected requested topics and pulls information from a user's uploaded images, diagrams, quotes and documents.

It's rolling retired correct now, but location are immoderate caveats. These overviews are only disposable successful English, though Google says much languages are connected nan way. Also, nan instrumentality doesn't make videos successful a accepted sense. It creates slideshows pinch narration.

Despite this limitation, nan institution says nan characteristic is "uniquely effective for explaining data, demonstrating processes and making absurd concepts much tangible." Google besides says it'll beryllium expanding nan toolset successful nan future, truthful it won't ever beryllium conscionable a slideshow machine.

Video Overviews do presently connection immoderate useful playback options. There's nan expertise to skip backmost and distant by 10 seconds and set nan playback speed. The institution is besides updating NotebookLM's Studio tab. It's getting a ocular refresh, which rolls retired "over nan adjacent fewer weeks" to each users.

Google has surely been engaged iterating connected nan level these past fewer months. It released an official NotebookLM app backmost successful May and began offering curated "featured notebooks" earlier this month. This lets users research pinch nan level pinch pre-approved topics for illustration William Shakespeare, truthful newbies won't person to really upload anything. Audio-only overviews are besides now disposable successful complete 50 languages.