Google introduced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out Video Overviews to NotebookLM, its AI-based note-taking and analysis assistant. First launched at Google I/O in Could, Video Overviews permit customers to flip dense multimedia, similar to uncooked notes, PDFs, and pictures, into digestible visible displays.
Beforehand, the service took an audio method to serving to customers perceive supplies with Audio Overviews, a characteristic that provides customers the flexibility to generate a podcast with AI digital hosts primarily based on paperwork they’ve shared with NotebookLM, similar to course readings or authorized briefs.
With this new functionality, NotebookLM is taking a extra visible method to serving to customers perceive completely different matters and concepts.
Google says customers can consider Video Overviews as a visible various to Audio Overviews. The characteristic creates new visuals whereas pulling in photos, diagrams, quotes, and numbers from uploaded paperwork to elucidate the content material. Google says the characteristic is nice for explaining knowledge, demonstrating processes, and making summary ideas simpler to know.
Customers can customise their Video Overviews, simply as they do with Audio Overviews. They’ll specify matters to deal with, point out their studying objectives, describe the audience, and extra.
They’ll ask easy questions like, “I do know nothing about this subject; assist me perceive the diagrams within the paper,” or particular ones like, “I’m already an knowledgeable on X and my workforce works on Y; deal with Z.”
Video Overviews at the moment are rolling out to all customers in English, with help for extra languages coming quickly, Google says.
Google additionally introduced that it’s rolling out updates to NotebookLM’s Studio panel. Customers can now create and retailer a number of studio outputs of the identical sort in a single pocket book. Plus, customers will now see 4 tiles on the high of the Studio panel for creating Audio Overviews, Video Overviews, Thoughts Maps, and Experiences with a single click on.
As well as, customers can now multitask inside the Studio panel. For instance, they’ll hearken to an Audio Overview whereas concurrently exploring a Thoughts Map or reviewing a Research Information.
