Notebooklm's Latest Trick Turns Your Notes Into Ai Video Slideshows - Here's How

Trending 1 month ago
video-overviews
ZDNET/Google

Google's NotebookLM went viral owed to its Audio Overviews feature, which creates AI-generated podcasts betwixt 2 hosts based connected your content. Now, Google has besides made a much-anticipated leap into video. 

Also: ChatGPT's study mode could beryllium your adjacent tutor - and it's free

On Tuesday, Google launched Video Overviews, a characteristic primitively unveiled astatine Google I/O, that creates narrated slides from your content. The characteristic adds ocular components to Audio Overviews, pinch nan AI hosts creating caller visuals that thief exemplify nan content, arsenic seen below:

Oh, you thought that was it? In summation to our caller look we've sewage immoderate caller tricks too:
🎉 VIDEO OVERVIEWS are starting rollout TODAY 🥳 (English + desktop only to start)
Create visually engaging descent summaries of your notebook content. We can't hold to spot what you make! pic.twitter.com/DlVBo7Pi03

— NotebookLM (@NotebookLM) July 29, 2025

Video Overviews usage cases (and really to access) 

The slides incorporated nan existing ocular elements from your document, including images, diagrams, quotes, and numbers. I tin spot immoderate useful applications for this characteristic for some moving professionals and students. For example, erstwhile uploading a dense investigation insubstantial aliases business report, nan Video Overviews instrumentality could break down nan concepts and support immoderate of nan cardinal charts basal to explicate nan topic. 

Also: Google's caller Search mode puts classical results backmost connected apical - really to entree it

If you are acquainted pinch Audio Overviews, you'll easy set to Video Overviews, which keeps immoderate of nan champion customization features, specified arsenic specifying topics to attraction on, learning goals, audience, and more, according to Google. Video Overviews is disposable to each English NotebookLM users. Google shares that further formats will beryllium added successful nan future, pinch narrated slides being nan first format to motorboat successful Video Overviews. 

New look 

The existent NotebookLM workplace has received an upgraded look that goes beyond aesthetics and adds to its functionalities. With nan redesign, users tin "create and shop aggregate workplace outputs," allowing them to nutrient different outputs from their content, specified arsenic Audio Overviews, Mind Maps, Reports, and Study Guides, and shop them successful 1 azygous notebook:

Introducing our ✨ marque caller ✨ Studio UI. Rolling retired today, you can:
🎙️ Create aggregate outputs from nan aforesaid sources (including AOs successful different languages)
🎧 Listen to audio overviews while utilizing different features (chat, FAQ, etc)
📄 Select sources erstwhile creating outputs pic.twitter.com/Hka10OkOtd

— NotebookLM (@NotebookLM) July 29, 2025

The caller look includes 4 tiles astatine nan apical of nan Studio sheet to shape nan content. Another added perk is nan expertise to research aggregate generated outputs simultaneously. For example, you could perceive to your Audio Overviews AI-podcast while besides reviewing a generated study guide, which you couldn't do before. 


You tin support up pinch my latest stories and tech adventures connected societal media. Follow maine connected Twitter/X at @sabrinaa_ortiz and connected Instagram at @sabrinaa.ortiz. 

Editorial standards
More