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NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages

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Re: NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages

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Post by jszymborski »

riffic wrote: post #7
anyfactor wrote: post #2

https://support.google.com/notebooklm/answer/15731776 - Afrikaans - Albanian - Arabic - Armenian - Azerbaijani - Basque - Bengali - Bulgarian - Burmese (Myanmar) - Catalan - Cebuano - Chinese (Simplified) - Chinese (Traditional) - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dutch - English - Estonian - Filipino - Finnish - French (Canada) - French (European) - Galician - Georgian - German - Greek - Gujarati - Haitian Creole - Hebrew…

cool, thanks for the wall of text.

There's a collapse feature (the [-] link at the top of the post)

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Post by pottertheotter »

ipsum2 wrote: post #6

Do people find NotebookLM useful? For my use case of converting papers into podcasts, the explanations are too general (which misses the important parts of the paper) and contain too much fluff. I suspect that changing the underlying model to Gemini 2.5 Pro would produce better transcripts, but right now there's no way of determining what model is being used.

What’s interesting is that the create podcast thing is just a feature of NotebookLM. But everyone thinks that’s what NotebookLM is

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Post by energy123 »

harryf wrote: post #9
ipsum2 wrote: post #6

Do people find NotebookLM useful? For my use case of converting papers into podcasts, the explanations are too general (which misses the important parts of the paper) and contain too much fluff. I suspect that changing the underlying model to Gemini 2.5 Pro would produce better transcripts, but right now there's no way of determining what model is being used.

It’s useful for getting summaries of long YouTube videos - I’m found it semi helpful for improving my Davinci Resolve skills. That said Google is screwing the pooch as usual by trying to make it another walled garden. Slap an API on NoteboolLM already! The market research has already been done - there’s even an unofficial API https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1eti9iz/api_for...

For YouTube videos it's hard to beat (1) copy transcript to clipboard (from eg tactiq) (2) paste into LLM chat and ask for summary

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Post by jcims »

ipsum2 wrote: post #6

Do people find NotebookLM useful? For my use case of converting papers into podcasts, the explanations are too general (which misses the important parts of the paper) and contain too much fluff. I suspect that changing the underlying model to Gemini 2.5 Pro would produce better transcripts, but right now there's no way of determining what model is being used.

I haven't really found it interesting for technical content but do think it's somewhat useful for hashing out more subjective and/or personal things like goals, difficulties, conflict, etc.

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Post by jsnell »

ipsum2 wrote: post #6

Do people find NotebookLM useful? For my use case of converting papers into podcasts, the explanations are too general (which misses the important parts of the paper) and contain too much fluff. I suspect that changing the underlying model to Gemini 2.5 Pro would produce better transcripts, but right now there's no way of determining what model is being used.

You can enter a prompt from the "customize" dialog. Have you tried asking for a more specifics, assume the audience is an expert on the subject, and cut down on the fluff?

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Post by bongodongobob »

pottertheotter wrote: post #12
ipsum2 wrote: post #6

Do people find NotebookLM useful? For my use case of converting papers into podcasts, the explanations are too general (which misses the important parts of the paper) and contain too much fluff. I suspect that changing the underlying model to Gemini 2.5 Pro would produce better transcripts, but right now there's no way of determining what model is being used.

What’s interesting is that the create podcast thing is just a feature of NotebookLM. But everyone thinks that’s what NotebookLM is

It seems to be the only unique feature though. Any LLM can summarize things for me or make bullet points.

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Post by ljoshua »

NotebookLM audio overviews/podcasts have been an absolute boon for my homeschooled kids. They devour audiobooks and podcasts, and they love learning by listening to these first. Then when we come together for class, we discuss what was covered, and can spend time diving into specifics or doing activities based on the content. It’s super nice to have another option for a learning medium here.

To generate them, we’ve scanned the physical book pages, and then with a simple Python script fed the images into GCP’s Document AI to extract the text en-masse, and concatenated the results together into a text-only version of the chapter. Give that text to NotebookLM and run with it.

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Post by alphabetting »

ipsum2 wrote: post #6

Do people find NotebookLM useful? For my use case of converting papers into podcasts, the explanations are too general (which misses the important parts of the paper) and contain too much fluff. I suspect that changing the underlying model to Gemini 2.5 Pro would produce better transcripts, but right now there's no way of determining what model is being used.

I found this prompt online and tweaking it for audio overviews works extremely well for me.

https://open.substack.com/pub/lawsen/p/notebooklm-podcasts-b...

Generate a deep technical briefing, not a light podcast overview. Focus on technical accuracy, comprehensive analysis, and extended duration, tailored for an expert listener. The listener has a technical background comparable to a research scientist on an AGI safety team at a leading AI lab. Use precise terminology found in the source materials. Aim for significant length and depth. Aspire to the comprehensiveness and duration of podcasts like 80,000 Hours, running for 2 hours or more.

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Post by alphabetting »

bongodongobob wrote: post #16
pottertheotter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s interesting is that the create podcast thing is just a feature of NotebookLM. But everyone thinks that’s what NotebookLM is

It seems to be the only unique feature though. Any LLM can summarize things for me or make bullet points.

The one other unique thing I use from them is the interactive mind maps. Like a table of contents on steroids
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