TL;DR
- NotebookLM now helps two new supply varieties— YouTube movies and audio information.
- The device can robotically generate notes, summaries, discussions, and extra from public YouTube movies.
- It’s also possible to create complete examine guides from audio information.
YouTube has a wealth of academic content material, and many people use the platform to study new issues or get assist with schoolwork. Sadly, it doesn’t have any built-in options to assist college students put together notes or get a fast abstract of the subjects mentioned in a video. Whereas we don’t anticipate YouTube so as to add such capabilities, NotebookLM has a brand new characteristic that may very well be of assist.
NotebookLM is Google’s AI-powered analysis and writing assistant, which helps you to rapidly create notes, examine guides, discussions with AI hosts, and extra based mostly on info from numerous sources. To date, the device has allowed customers to import info from PDF information, web sites, Google Docs, Slides, and textual content/markdown information. Now, Google has added help for YouTube movies and audio information.
Google says that NotebookLM can now summarize key ideas from public YouTube movies “and permits for in-depth exploration via inline citations linked on to the video’s transcripts.” The device additionally permits you to create AI-powered discussions based mostly on the video and has a built-in YouTube participant that helps you watch the video whereas making ready notes.
With audio information, NotebookLM can generate complete examine guides and allow you to find particular info inside the audio transcript. Together with these new sources, Google has added a sooner approach to share Audio Overviews created in NotebookLM, which generates shareable URLs for the AI-hosted discussions.
You may check out these new options by heading over to the NotebookLM web site and including a URL of a public YouTube video or audio file to your pocket book. Be aware that the sharable Audio Overviews URLs are at the moment not obtainable for Workspace customers.