Google's Notebooklm Now Lets You Customize Your Ai Podcasts In Tone And Length

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• NotebookLM introduced caller audio formats connected Wednesday.
• The formats connection users much interactive, customizable accusation distillation. 
• The instrumentality could prevention students and workers time.

Google's NotebookLM audio overview characteristic went viral because it uses AI to create engaging, realistic podcasts from your content. The characteristic conscionable sewage a facelift, making it moreover much helpful, allowing you to customize nan podcast to suit your needs moreover further. 

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On Wednesday, Google launched caller audio formats successful NotebookLM. With nan caller format, users tin proceed to person their information, notes, and information that a personification input into podcasts, but this clip they will person nan action to customize nan extremity results pinch 4 caller styles that alteration successful reside and length. 

What's new?

The 4 styles now see nan default audio format: Deep Dive, which thoroughly examines your accusation sources for a broad review; Brief, which provides a two-minute-or-less overview of need-to-know information; Critique, which critically analyzes your material; and Debate, which takes your accusation and gets 2 hosts to statement it. 

Users tin customize nan audio formats to make them shorter aliases longer, arsenic good arsenic instruct nan AI hosts to attraction connected a definite worldly included wrong NotebookLM. NotebookLM's demo on X shows an illustration punctual requesting that nan hosts only screen accusation from nan article connected Italy, arsenic seen below. The caller formats besides characteristic caller voices, a highly requested feature. 

This is distinctly different from NotebookLM's audio deliveries successful nan past, wherever users could only usage 1 modular format. The caller characteristic amended accommodates different types of learners and needs. For example, if you are successful a rush, you tin now opt for a speedy place of your archive via nan Brief feature, aliases if you request ot beryllium engaged pinch much deliberating, nan Debate characteristic whitethorn beryllium amended suited for your needs. 

How to access?

Google shared successful nan X station that nan characteristic is disposable successful each languages and that rollout starts today. Google added that it should beryllium disposable for each users this week. As seen successful nan image astatine nan apical of nan article aliases successful nan demo above, selecting nan caller format is intuitive, arsenic it will automatically populate arsenic an action erstwhile clicking nan Audio Overview function. 

The various audio formats build connected useful functionalities wrong nan AI-powered NotebookLM that prevention users clip by assisting them pinch statement and accusation comprehension. When ZDNET's Sabrina Ortiz used nan AI product, she called nan statement strategy "incredibly helpful" for workers and students alike, arsenic it tin make study guides, a briefing document, FAQs, a timeline, aliases a podcast. 

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The caller audio formats should prevention workers and students clip up of a gathering aliases people preparations erstwhile they are tasked pinch reference respective documents aliases chat threads and presenting ideas connected them. The instrumentality does overmuch of nan dense lifting for nan user, providing a digestible accusation stream, particularly adjuvant arsenic workers are perpetually facing accusation and task overload, removing captious thought aliases intelligence expenditure. 

One pitfall of AI products, for illustration chatbots aliases AI assistants, is their inclination to hallucinate accusation based connected nan hundreds of thousands of unreliable sources from nan web. Since NotebookLM only uses nan accusation users provide, nan AI bot sources accusation from users' curated sources, addressing a large symptom constituent for moving professionals.