You Can Customize Your Notebooklm Audio Overview Outputs In-app Now - Here's How

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways:

• The NotebookLM app now offers caller customization options. 
• The level is positioned arsenic an AI-powered investigation assistant.
• More updates tin beryllium expected soon, according to nan platform.

The NotebookLM mobile app conscionable sewage a small much customizable.

You tin now specify much elements wrong nan Google-owned platform's Audio Overview tool, which debuted successful September of past year. Users tin set nan magnitude of generated responses (shorter, default, aliases longer -- presently disposable only successful English), and customize outputs pinch "guiding prompts," according to a Thursday X post. Guiding prompts are already disposable connected desktop. 

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In an accompanying demo video, a personification is shown selecting a shorter response, and adds nan prompt: "How are Newton's 3 laws of mobility demonstrated successful nan motorboat of a rocket?" After clicking nan underlying "Generate" button, nan strategy quickly outputs a little AI-generated audio clip featuring nan platform's 2 signature voices, 1 higher and 1 lower, interacting successful a podcast-style speech and discussing nan physics of rocket flight.

NotebookLM besides wrote successful its Thursday X station that buffering clip connected nan app has been reduced by 95%. And while nan level has offered multilingual capabilities since April, users tin now set their preferred connection straight wrong a customization container successful nan Audio Overview UI; previously, you'd person to set nan connection settings connected your device.

More updates tin beryllium expected soon, according to nan X post.

The emergence of AI voices

Google Labs, nan tech giant's experimental AI division, launched NotebookLM successful July 2023. It's been marketed arsenic an AI-powered investigation adjunct that allows users to summation caller perspectives connected and return a deeper dive into uploaded content, which tin alteration from PDFs, Google Docs, and images.

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Google announced past month that NotebookLM's catalog of notebooks -- soul virtual workspaces containing contented focused connected circumstantial subjects -- was expanding to see worldly from The Economist and The Atlantic, some of which person contented licensing agreements pinch Google. New notebooks were besides developed successful collaboration pinch scientists, nonprofits, and authors, including Shakespeare's work. 

NotebookLM's voice-generating capabilities person almost uncannily humanlike tones, cadences, and quirks. They tin do overmuch much than speak successful nan robotic tenor of a Siri aliases an Alexa: "This is nan magic…uh, well, nan physics of liftoff," 1 narrator says successful nan demo video featured successful nan Thursday X post.

Such lifelike voices person go a awesome focal constituent passim nan AI manufacture arsenic developers title to build much engaging AI tools. Many companies building text-to-speech technology now connection models that tin whisper, laugh, realistically imitate nan voices of existent people, and execute a assortment of different awesome audio stunts. These devices could, among galore different uses, supply cheaper alternatives to hiring quality sound actors for trading firms aliases beryllium utilized to create much realistic AI companions aliases therapists, among different usage cases. 

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Meanwhile, NotebookLM and different platforms are hoping to usher successful a caller era of AI-assisted investigation and education. Software institution Speechify debuted a feature earlier this period that allows Premium subscribers to toggle shape uploaded contented into AI-generated "lecture-style" podcasts, aliases make a podcast from a matter prompt. The instrumentality could beryllium a useful replacement for students who struggle pinch reference aliases who conscionable for illustration audio-based learning.