I Tested This New Ai Podcast Tool To See If It Can Beat Notebooklm - Here's How It Did

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The Speechify text-to-speech app enables its complete 50 cardinal users worldwide to person immoderate text, including documents, articles, PDFs, and images into audio, pinch complete 200 voices to take from. Now, nan institution is delving into a caller type of audio: AI-generated podcasts. 

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Starting today, Speechify users will beryllium capable to move immoderate contented into a "lecture-style" podcast. They'll besides get entree to a slew of different AI-powered features, including updates to AI Summaries and AI-generated quizzes and a caller AI recap feature, and possibly nan biggest, AI podcasts. 

Keep reference to find retired really nan caller AI podcast characteristic useful and really it compares to viral devices specified arsenic Google's NotebookLM Audio Overviews AI podcast characteristic aliases ElevenLabs' AI podcast option.

Who is Speechify for? 

Speechify is geared toward group who either person a reference impediment aliases conscionable for illustration sound content. The caller releases are positioned arsenic study immunodeficiency and back-to-school devices for students. 

How does nan AI-powered podcast work?

On nan Speechify platform, you person ever been capable to upload your ain materials for it to publication them retired large for you. Now, those materials tin beryllium utilized to create a podcast. One characteristic that differentiates it from competitors for illustration NotebookLM is that connected nan Speechify platform, you tin take nan style of "show" that you want to perceive to, pinch options including a modular podcast, debate, late-night pinch notes of comedy, and lecture.

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Instead of uploading your ain text, you tin besides participate a matter punctual of a taxable you're willing in, and Speechify will make a podcast astir it for you, different characteristic that sets it isolated from NotebookLM. Speechify does not delineate what root worldly it uses to make a podcast from scratch, but told maine that this characteristic is powered by its proprietary ample connection exemplary (LLM), which is comprised of unfastened and closed root models. The institution says it runs changeless evaluations to make it better, but since it pulls from nan web and nan podcast doesn't see citations, it's wise to verify immoderate statements aliases claims, particularly if you're conducting investigation for school. 

How it worked for maine (and really to access) 

Using nan characteristic was intuitive. The first measurement was to click connected "AI Podcast." Once you do, you are presented pinch nan 4 options and a explanation of each. For example, nan podcast mode is described arsenic "neutral tone, 2 speakers," nan late-night show is described arsenic "notes of comedy, 3 speakers," nan statement is described arsenic "argumentative, 3 speakers," and nan speech is described arsenic "educational, 2 speakers." 

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Once you click connected your mode of choice, you tin either click connected nan "describe pinch text" aliases "select file" action to create nan podcast. For nan liking of this experiment, I uploaded a PDF of a ZDNET article I wrote. After you upload a file, you tin effort nan accepted text-to-audio feature, successful which a sound sounds nan contented to you connection for connection (ElevenLabs offers this feature arsenic well). This is beautiful neat successful itself; I had Gwyneth Paltrow publication my communicative to me. 

I chose nan AI podcast action successful nan podcast mode, which took 1 infinitesimal and 25 seconds to create. In nan world of near-instantaneous AI, I was amazed that it took a spot much than a minute, but each things considered, a infinitesimal is still beautiful speedy --NotebookLM's process takes a fewer minutes. 

The resulting podcast was great. It was astir 5 minutes (half arsenic short arsenic what NotebookLM presently offers), meticulous to what I wrote, and sounded for illustration a quality conversation. A unsocial characteristic I recovered adjuvant was a transcript of nan speech that you tin easy travel on pinch arsenic nan words are highlighted arsenic they are read, for illustration erstwhile singing karaoke. Other adjuvant features fto you power nan velocity and easy revisit nan original text, which is displayed connected a banner astatine nan bottommost of nan app page.  

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I past tried it again pinch nan late-night show and statement modes, arsenic nan nuances progressive successful carrying those retired sounded nan astir intriguing to me. The late-night show was amazingly amended than I anticipated, arsenic I was tense nan three-person chat would beryllium overwhelming. Instead, location was decent banter and hand-off betwixt nan 3 protagonists that made it overmuch much enjoyable to perceive to than nan standard. The joke added vivid analogies and metaphors that worked really good to respire unrecorded into nan contented without changing its meaning -- apt particularly adjuvant for denser topics. 

The statement mode gave maine 1 speaker's intonation that I could not carnivore to perceive to because of nan chipper, precocious intonations that were unnatural to what was being said -- but this isn't a woody breaker to maine since you person nan action to prime which mode you would prefer, and personification whitethorn beryllium a instrumentality of nan overly cheery. 

Speechify Premium users tin effort nan AI Podcast characteristic connected iOS today; web and Android are still connected nan way, though Speechify did not specify a merchandise date. 

Other features 

Speechify has already been utilizing AI to substance different features connected nan platform, including generating summaries and quizzes, earlier moving into podcasts. Those features besides sewage an upgrade that allows users to create summaries and quizzes from circumstantial chapters wrong their reference alternatively than nan full text. 

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AI Recap is simply a caller AI characteristic that allows users to click "recap" to get a summary of what they conscionable read, akin to nan refresher you spot earlier watching nan adjacent section of a TV show. 

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Speechify's Chrome Extension sewage immoderate updates, including nan summation of AI Summaries. This lets users summarize immoderate matter straight successful their browser's broadside panel. Users tin besides hone successful connected portion of nan matter by utilizing nan "ask AI" feature. Speechify shares its Chrome Extension was besides upgraded to beryllium faster, loading almost instantly without slowing down browsing. 

Some non-AI additions see nan expertise to return notes, item text, bookmark readings, hunt successful documents, stock files, and upgrade voices that sound much conversational. Speechify is besides enabling a filtering acquisition that makes it easier for users to find conscionable nan correct sound for them. 

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Lastly, successful nan back-to-school spirit, Speechify besides added complete 70,000 free books to Speechify, including classical literature, OpenStax's catalog of free textbooks, and 130,000 textbooks from different publishers specified arsenic Taylor & Francis and O'Reilly that users tin entree straight successful nan platform.