Google’s Notebooklm Rolls Out Video Overviews

Google announced connected Tuesday that it’s rolling retired Video Overviews to NotebookLM, its AI-based note-taking and investigation assistant. First introduced astatine Google I/O successful May, Video Overviews let users to turn dense multimedia, specified arsenic earthy notes, PDFs, and images, into digestible ocular presentations.

Previously, nan work took an audio attack to helping users understand materials pinch Audio Overviews, a characteristic that gives users nan expertise to make a podcast pinch AI virtual hosts based connected documents they person shared pinch NotebookLM, specified arsenic people readings aliases ineligible briefs.

With this caller capability, NotebookLM is taking a much ocular attack to helping users understand different topics and ideas.

Google says users tin deliberation of Video Overviews arsenic a ocular replacement to Audio Overviews. The characteristic creates caller visuals while pulling successful images, diagrams, quotes, and numbers from uploaded documents to explicate nan content. Google says nan characteristic is bully for explaining data, demonstrating processes, and making absurd concepts easier to understand.

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Users tin customize their Video Overviews, conscionable for illustration really they’re capable to pinch Audio Overviews. They tin specify topics to attraction on, bespeak their learning goals, picture nan target audience, and more.

They tin inquire elemental questions like, “I cognize thing astir this topic; thief maine understand nan diagrams successful nan paper,” aliases circumstantial ones like, “I’m already an master connected X and my squad useful connected Y; attraction connected Z.”

Video Overviews are now rolling retired to each users successful English, pinch support for much languages coming soon, Google says.

Google besides announced that it’s rolling retired updates to NotebookLM’s Studio panel. Users tin now create and shop aggregate workplace outputs of nan aforesaid type successful a azygous notebook. Plus, users will now spot 4 tiles astatine nan apical of nan Studio sheet for creating Audio Overviews, Video Overviews, Mind Maps, and Reports pinch a azygous click.

In addition, users tin now multitask wrong nan Studio panel. For example, they tin perceive to an Audio Overview while simultaneously exploring a Mind Map aliases reviewing a Study Guide.