Google’s NotebookLM is getting a brand new Video Overviews function that makes use of AI to create slideshows with narration. The function is rolling out now in English, and Google says that assist for “extra languages” is coming quickly.
“You’ll be able to consider these as a visible various to Audio Overviews: the AI host creates new visuals to assist illustrate factors whereas additionally pulling in pictures, diagrams, quotes and numbers out of your paperwork,” in keeping with a weblog publish. “This makes it uniquely efficient for explaining knowledge, demonstrating processes and making summary ideas extra tangible.” Google plans to introduce “further codecs” sooner or later. Primarily based on a demo video, Video Overviews have helpful playback controls like the power to skip backwards and forwards by 10 seconds and set playback velocity.
Google can also be asserting updates to NotebookLM’s Studio tab, which is the place you possibly can have the app generate issues like Audio and Video Overviews, examine guides, and briefing paperwork. The most important change is that you just’ll have the ability to “create and retailer a number of studio outputs of the identical kind in a single pocket book,” that means you can also make a number of Audio Overviews all referencing info from the pocket book you’re working from.
The Studio tab is getting a visible refresh, too — it would have 4 tiles on the prime for making Audio Overviews, Video Overviews, Thoughts Maps, and Studies, Google says. The Studio modifications will roll out “over the subsequent few weeks” to all customers.
