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Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by goldenjm »

PiersonMarks wrote: post #100
NoImmatureAdHom wrote: post #20

I'd like to have audio overviews of scientific papers, so I can "read" them while I drive. NotebookLM/Gemini Notebook sorta does this, but the two-person podcast format is kind of annoying and it can't pronounce math. Is there something out there that will do this? I'm sure the right harness around frontier models would make it work.

Paper2Audio is great - and if you're looking to have more editorial control over the outputs, check out Jellypod. You can choose your hosts, publish it to a website/RSS feed, edit scripts, etc.

Jellypod is great as well!

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Post by satvikpendem »

dotancohen wrote: post #86
forkerenok wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wondered when the name change was coming because this is Google: products be endlessly repackaged and renamed, some only to be killed later.

> products be endlessly repackaged I don't speak English at home either, so I hope this helps. It's "products are", not "products be".

It's ebonics, a slang or dialect version of using "are."

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by sunaookami »

frollogaston wrote: post #52
electriclove wrote: post #36

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Allo?

Allo, Google Talk, Hangouts Chat (not the same as Hangouts), "Meet (original)", idk maybe some other thing called Google Chat that isn't the new Google Chat, uhh my Android phone has 2 "Messages" apps so one of them is probably deprecated?

Good article from 2021: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...

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Post by navane »

dotancohen wrote: post #86
forkerenok wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wondered when the name change was coming because this is Google: products be endlessly repackaged and renamed, some only to be killed later.

> products be endlessly repackaged I don't speak English at home either, so I hope this helps. It's "products are", not "products be".

sometimes it do be like that

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by conception »

forkerenok wrote: post #29
freedomben wrote: post #2

I wondered when the name change was coming as NotebookLM felt a bit out of place brand-wise. Still would have been killer if they called it "Bard Notebook"

I wondered when the name change was coming because this is Google: products be endlessly repackaged and renamed, some only to be killed later.

I’ve noticed a lot of big corporations doing this and I think the reasoning behind it is it’s really easy to say you shipped a product on your résumé. If all you did was change the name of it. It actually takes a lot of work and time to ship a new innovative product.

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Post by hek2sch »

petra wrote: post #94
hek2sch wrote: post #16

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Best closest I stumble on is nouswise. Lets you contain an agent with even more sources and generate almost all outputs.

No pricing, "call for demo". Not sure this is for personal use.

I use it for personal use. They have 3 plans, 1 free 2 paid.

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by frollogaston »

satvikpendem wrote: post #112
dotancohen wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> products be endlessly repackaged I don't speak English at home either, so I hope this helps. It's "products are", not "products be".

It's ebonics, a slang or dialect version of using "are."

And it's more like "are being" here (present imperfect)

Re: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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Post by Chu4eeno »

thornewolf wrote: post #66
blfr wrote: post #11

I admonish Gemini and demand explanation nearly every day of how it's possible that Google invented the thing, has the best infrastructure for inference, and somehow falls behind Anthropic and even OpenAI. NotebookLM is pretty cool since it can hold a ton of context but this is so far below my (and frankly just reasonable) expectations of Google. I downgraded my Gemini subscription and got Claude. Still can't believe…

My response is going to be about Gemini generally and less about NotebookLM. Google's last frontier model release was Gemini 3.1 Pro, which was in February of this year[1]. At the time, it was ahead of the (at the time) flagship models of Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.2/5.3. From my recollection of the time, it was the best model in the world. Anthropic released Opus 4.5 Nov '25, 4.6 in Feb '26, 4.7 in April, 4.8 in (late) May.…

I think you have rosy eyed glasses (or never inspected the output too closely), Gemini 3.1 Pro was very bad at hallucinating.
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