TLDR;
This video discusses five new features added to Google's Notebook LM, enhancing its utility for various tasks. These updates include diverse audio overview formats, expanded language support, customisable video overviews, new report generation options, and improved sharing capabilities with analytics. The tool can now create podcasts, critique content, generate videos, and produce study guides, making it a versatile AI assistant for both personal and professional use.
- New audio overview formats: deep dive, brief, critique, and debate.
- Expanded language support: over 80 languages for audio and video overviews.
- Customisable video overviews: create videos with AI hosts focusing on specific topics.
- New report generation options: briefing docs, study guides, FAQs, and timelines.
- Improved sharing capabilities: share notebooks with specific access levels and analytics.
New Audio Overview Formats [0:12]
Notebook LM now offers several audio overview formats: deep dive, brief, critique, and debate. The deep dive format is similar to the original audio overview, providing a lively conversation between two hosts. The brief format delivers a concise summary of the core ideas. The critique format offers expert feedback on your sources to improve your material, useful for reviewing blog posts, videos, or academic arguments. The debate format presents a thoughtful discussion between two hosts, exploring different perspectives on your sources.
Expanded Language Support for Audio Overviews [2:40]
Notebook LM has expanded its language support to include over 80 languages for generating audio overviews. This allows users to create podcasts and other audio content in multiple languages, such as English, Spanish, Filipino, French, and Italian. Users can select the desired language, specify the length and focus of the overview, and generate the audio content in just a few minutes.
Source Selection and Interactive Mode [3:37]
Users can now discover and add sources from the web or Google Drive, supporting up to 300 files of various types. It's possible to select specific sources to be used for generating audio overviews, rather than using the entire source catalogue. The interactive mode allows users to join the audio overview, interrupt the hosts, and ask questions, with the AI drawing answers from the provided sources.
Customisable Video Overviews [5:44]
Notebook LM now allows users to create customisable video overviews in over 80 languages. Users can specify the focus of the AI host, making it suitable for creating YouTube videos, onboarding videos, intro videos, and sales pitches. The process involves adding sources, specifying the topic, and generating the video, which includes graphics and information drawn from the sources.
Generating Reports: Briefing Docs, Study Guides, FAQs, and Timelines [8:27]
Notebook LM can generate various reports, including briefing documents, study guides, FAQs, and timelines. Briefing documents are useful for onboarding, while study guides are helpful for summarising class materials. FAQs can be created for websites or internal training, and timelines are particularly useful for historical content or YouTube video summaries. The mindmap feature, while not new, remains a valuable tool for visualising information from various sources.
Sharing Notebooks and Analytics [9:45]
Notebooks can now be shared like other Google Drive files, with options to add a welcome note and specify access levels, such as chat access only or full notebook access. Analytics are available to track user interaction with the notebook, provided it is shared with at least four users and has chat history within the last seven days.