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Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Customize Its AI Podcasts
The NotebookLM tool generates AI-hosted audio podcasts on any topic. Its latest update allows users to enter prompts to personalize the output. I tried it out.
Released by Google Labs in 2023 as an experimental, AI-focused writing tool, NotebookLM has been enjoying a resurgence in user interest since early September, when the developers added an option to generate podcast-like conversations between two AI voices—one male-sounding and one female-sounding—from uploaded documents. While these audio “deep dives” can be used for studying and productivity, many of the viral clips online focused on the entertainment factor of asking robot hosts to discuss bizarre or highly personal source documents, like a LinkedIn profile. With the extra nudge, this output from NotebookLM did an admirable job of zeroing in on these motifs and generating a discussion that sounded similar to what I’ve heard before in college classrooms.
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