Google’s made a reasonably large splash with its AI-generated podcast characteristic , and earlier than the yr is out the app is . As half of a bigger redesign of Google’s AI pocket book software, Audio Overviews at the moment are interactive.
After producing an Audio Overview based mostly on the sources you’ve uploaded, Google says you’ll have the ability to play the recording in a brand new “Interactive mode (BETA).” Clicking “Join” at any level in that new playback display will get the AI hosts to name on you to ask a query, which they’ll reply dwell whilst you’re listening again. Google cautions that the characteristic remains to be experimental and that hosts may pause awkwardly or introduce new inaccuracies whereas answering questions, however it appeared to work effectively in a short check. I used to be capable of create a NotebookLM challenge skilled on articles about NotebookLM, and whereas asking a query did appear to gradual the entire Overview down, the AI hosts had been capable of easily incorporate a solution into the remainder of the present.
Alongside these new expanded options, NotebookLM is getting a little bit of a visible overhaul. The interface is now cut up into three sections, a “Studio” panel the place AI-generated content material like Audio Overviews, examine guides, and FAQs dwell, a central “Chat” panel for asking questions on your sources to Google’s AI, and a “Sources” panel on the left for managing what sources NotebookLM pulls from. It’s a fairly clear setup, and having the ability to collapse a panel once you’re not utilizing it retains issues from getting cluttered.
Google can be utilizing these updates as a strategy to introduce its first cross at monetizing NotebookLM. A brand new premium subscription is offered to Google Workspace and Cloud prospects as a Gemini add-on, and offers you the flexibility to generate as much as 20 Audio Overviews per day, create as much as 500 AI notebooks, and add as much as 300 sources per pocket book. That interprets to a further $20 per person monthly for Workspace subscribers. Beginning subsequent yr, NotebookLM Plus advantages may also be rolled into the Google One AI Premium subscription.
NotebookLM began as an inner Google experiment known as Mission Tailwind, however rapidly blossomed into one of many extra cheap functions of Google’s Gemini AI mannequin due to its grounding in sources you add, relatively than the online and no matter scraped materials Gemini was initially skilled on. It’s able to working with something from internet articles to , however its Audio Overviews have confirmed to be certainly one of its hottest options.
