Google has this week (September 26) shared new additions to its AI note-taking and analysis assistant NotebookLM, together with shareable AI-generated audio discussions and YouTube summaries.
Whereas NotebookLM was initially launched as a venture on the I/O developer convention in 2023, the search big is now increasing its use circumstances and attain.
In a information launch revealed on Thursday, the creator shares the small print: “Now you can add public YouTube URLs and audio recordsdata to your pocket book for a fair deeper understanding of your sources.”
They write that early testing has outlined 3 ways the brand new supply sort in YouTube and audio recordsdata can be utilized. This contains:
“Analyzing movies and lectures: Once you add YouTube movies to NotebookLM, it summarizes key ideas and permits for in-depth exploration by means of inline citations linked on to the video’s transcript. It’s nice for evaluating views throughout a number of sources on a selected subject, and you’ll view the movies inside NotebookLM with the embedded YouTube participant.
“Making connections inside audio recordings: You’ll be able to streamline crew tasks by including audio recordings and having NotebookLM search throughout the transcribed conversations to find particular data, eliminating the necessity for listening to lengthy audio recordsdata for the necessary nuggets.
“Creating examine guides: You’ll be able to rework class recordings, handwritten notes, and lecture slides into complete examine guides with a single click on. These mechanically generated guides consolidate all the key data for handy entry.”
Google’s NotebookLM expands past educators
It was simply two weeks in the past when Google launched ‘Audio Overview’ for NotebookLM and now sharing that file instantly has been made potential.
As soon as an audio overview has been created, customers merely have to faucet ‘share’, and a public hyperlink is then generated to be shared with others.
Dubbed by the search big as an ‘AI pocket book for everybody,’ the software was initially used solely by educators and learners. Now although, a shift has taken place and the corporate is seeing extra individuals in a normal office atmosphere utilizing its options.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Raiza Martin the senior product supervisor for AI at Google Labs mentioned that its customers at the moment are roughly cut up. “With 50% being educators and learners, and the opposite half consisting of enterprise professionals.”
Featured Picture: through Google Information
