Google’s made a fairly 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 be capable to play the recording in a brand new “Interactive mode (BETA).” Clicking “Join” at any level in that new playback display screen will get the AI hosts to name on you to ask a query, which they’ll reply dwell when you’re listening again. Google cautions that the characteristic continues to be experimental and that hosts may pause awkwardly or introduce new inaccuracies whereas answering questions, nevertheless it appeared to work nicely in a quick check. I used to be in a position to create a NotebookLM venture educated on articles about NotebookLM, and whereas asking a query did appear to gradual the entire Overview down, the AI hosts have been in a position to 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, research 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 if you’re not utilizing it retains issues from getting cluttered.
Google can also be utilizing these updates as a solution 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 provides you with 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 an extra $20 per person per 30 days for Workspace subscribers. Beginning subsequent yr, NotebookLM Plus advantages may even be rolled into the Google One AI Premium subscription.
NotebookLM began as an inner Google experiment referred to as Challenge 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, reasonably than the net and no matter scraped materials Gemini was initially educated on. It’s able to working with something from net articles to , however its Audio Overviews have confirmed to be one among its hottest options.
