With Google’s new AI capability,

you can create a podcast out of your notes: Here’s how you apply it.

 

 

 

 

 

Google‘s “Audio Overview” is a new experimental feature that uses AI to convert your notes into a podcast.

Google is testing a new functionality that lets users turn their research notes into an AI-generated podcast. The tech giant’s AI-powered note-taking software, NotebookLM, now has an experimental function called “summarise your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth.”

Google describes the new feature as “a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions.  It is called Audio Overview. The tech company claimed in a blog post that two AI hosts could initiate a dynamic “deep dive” discussion based on your sources with only one click. These AI-generated dialogues are also available for download by users.

The Verge, who tested out the new NotebookLM function, claims that the AI hosts sound human and employ contemporary language. But occasionally, the AI would spell out words and phrases like “P-L-U-S.”

Open a notebook in NotebookLM, navigate to the Notebook guide, and click the “Generate” button to generate an audio overview in order to utilize the new capability.

Although the new feature may be useful to include others in your notes, Google adds that it is currently in its experimental stage and has some recognized limitations. For example, if your notebook is quite large, it may take several minutes to create an Audio Overview. Furthermore, there is presently no way to stop the AI-powered hosts, who are only able to speak in English and may “occasionally introduce inaccuracies.”

Earlier this year, Google improved the big language model that underpins NotebookLM to Gemini 1.5 Pro and extended NotebookLM to more than 200 nations.