NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages

Post by aryehof » Thu, May 01, 2025, 7:24 AM UTC

Rebelgecko wrote: post #26

energy123 wrote: post #13

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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

Full disclosure, I work for Google opinions are my own etc etc The LLM built into YouTube is one of the few LLM chatbots bolted onto existing apps that I actually find useful. Not just for summaries but questions like "what is the timestamp in this 2 hour video where they talk about _____".

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 01, 2025, 7:29 AM UTC

Rebelgecko wrote: post #26

energy123 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Full disclosure, I work for Google opinions are my own etc etc The LLM built into YouTube is one of the few LLM chatbots bolted onto existing apps that I actually find useful. Not just for summaries but questions like "what is the timestamp in this 2 hour video where they talk about _____".

Post by tmoravec » Thu, May 01, 2025, 7:59 AM UTC

ksynwa wrote: post #92

Tangential: Anyone knows a free/cheap service that can turn English text articles into an audio file narrating them? Can NotebookLM do this? I don't want to turn them into podcasts or conversations.

Post by BOOSTERHIDROGEN » Thu, May 01, 2025, 1:32 PM UTC

dobladov wrote: post #25

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 find NotebookML really useful as a book reading companion, by simply uploading the same book I want to read and asking questions about it, like: - List the characters in chapter [x] and add a small description about each one. - What's [x] device used for? - What happened in chapter [x]? It works very well without hallucinations and referencing all the answers.

Post by yuzhun » Thu, May 01, 2025, 1:48 PM UTC

venusenvy47 wrote: post #98

sumedh wrote: post #70

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In the Audio Overview, click on Customize and enter the prompt then generate the podcast.

Do I need to be on a paid version or Pro? I don't see Customize in Audio Overview in the notebook that I just tested. Edit: I actually see Customize on a notebook where I hadn't already created a podcast. But on a notebook where I had already created one, I can't find a way to Customize. I guess I just need to create a new notebook with the same source material.