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Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator


Meta has released an 'open' implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google's NotebookLM called NotebookLlama.

NotebookLlama first creates a transcript from a file — e.g. a PDF of a news article or blog post. In the NotebookLlama samples I’ve listened to, the voices have a very obviously robotic quality to them, and tend to talk over each other at odd points. “The text-to-speech model is the limitation of how natural this will sound,” they wrote on NotebookLlama’s GitHub page.

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