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NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages

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Post by hammock »

gervwyk wrote: post #57
mikeocool wrote: post #41

NotebookLM podcasts are like a caricature of a real podcast. Every little verbal technique or narrative style that might be used by a normal podcaster in a subtle way is taken to an extreme. The last one I listened to one host would repeat a keyword or phrase the other host had just said for emphasis — except they did incessantly — with multiple words in every sentence for many sentences in a row.

Although I 100% agree, there is still a place for it. We place generated conversations with our case studies, and have receive good positive feedback so far, especially from the non-technical crowd. See example https://resonancy.io/case-studies/flava-process-digitization Of course one can invest more in better authenticity but for what it is, I believe it is a good bang for effort.. Also, if you listen to it for a wh…

Using them on case studies is a really interesting use case

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

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Post by michelb »

mikeocool wrote: post #41

NotebookLM podcasts are like a caricature of a real podcast. Every little verbal technique or narrative style that might be used by a normal podcaster in a subtle way is taken to an extreme. The last one I listened to one host would repeat a keyword or phrase the other host had just said for emphasis — except they did incessantly — with multiple words in every sentence for many sentences in a row.

I have to say it's a caricature of a lot of primarily American podcasts.

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

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Post by ljoshua »

mleonhard wrote: post #90
ljoshua wrote: post #17

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 s…

> for my homeschooled kids Learning requires making mistakes. Kids need to learn social skills in low-stakes environments. School is the best environment for this. When a person misses this part of their childhood education, they may struggle to learn these skills later in life.

It sounds like you may be speaking from experience, and if so, I respect that.

My kids have done both public schooling and now homeschooling. For a variety of personal reasons, public schooling was not going to be an option for a couple of them, so we're trying this out now and it has been successful. We are tightly integrated into a very active church group, and they have lots of social interactions on a regular basis there, as well as opportunities with other homeschooled kids around town.

It's definitely a balance, and there's no one silver bullet on either side of the fence, but the best any of us can do is actively strive for giving each child the best and most appropriate experiences for them.

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Post by ljoshua »

rosquillas wrote: post #76
ljoshua wrote: post #17

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 s…

Why not simply upload the pdf version of the scanned book or document? Extracting the text out of a scanned document via GCP Document AI API sounds like unnecessary use of resources

I was running into context window issues doing this. I could have gone in and split up the scanned book into chapters or something to get around this, and did that for a couple of subjects. But it wasn't too much work (and literally cost me pennies, like six of them) to get the pure text extract, and it's pretty easy to work with now. (Besides, which random dev doesn't love a little side challenge to explore new APIs at home every now and then? ;) )

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Post by mleonhard »

ljoshua wrote: post #103
mleonhard wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> for my homeschooled kids Learning requires making mistakes. Kids need to learn social skills in low-stakes environments. School is the best environment for this. When a person misses this part of their childhood education, they may struggle to learn these skills later in life.

It sounds like you may be speaking from experience, and if so, I respect that. My kids have done both public schooling and now homeschooling. For a variety of personal reasons, public schooling was not going to be an option for a couple of them, so we're trying this out now and it has been successful. We are tightly integrated into a very active church group, and they have lots of social interactions on a regular bas…

The ability to recognize sociopaths and manipulation is an important life skill which may not be obtainable at your church activities or with trusted families. People without these skills may be manipulated in the workplace and suffer avoidable career setbacks, stress, and attending health problems.

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

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Post by latentsea »

tkgally wrote: post #66
okdood64 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have an audio link and timestamp to this?

The link is here: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/c36ea335-6686-474d-bf... The fumu fumu is at 01:50. The podcast is about the impact of AI on higher education in Japan. I prompted NotebookLM briefly in Japanese about the topic, and it collected ten sources in Japanese and English that it used as the basis for the audio overview.

Hahahaha. Oh wow that is comedically out of place in a way that no human tries to use it comedically. That's... gorgeously funny. It's like fumu fumu but so deadpan in the delivery. I think I might just have to try and insert some of these completely out of place deadpan fumu fumu into my everyday speech. Too good.
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