NotebookLM is undoubtedly one among Google’s greatest implementations of generative AI know-how, supplying you with the power to discover paperwork and notes with a Gemini AI mannequin. Final yr, Google added the power to generate so-called “audio overviews” of your supply materials in NotebookLM. Now, Google has introduced these faux AI podcasts to look outcomes as a take a look at. As a substitute of clicking hyperlinks or studying the AI Overview, you possibly can have two nonexistent folks let you know what the outcomes say.
This characteristic isn’t at present rolling out extensively—it is accessible in search labs, which implies it’s important to manually allow it. Anybody can choose in to the brand new Audio Overview search expertise, although. When you be part of the take a look at, you may rapidly see the embedded participant in Google search outcomes. Nonetheless, it is not on the prime with the same old block of AI-generated textual content. As a substitute, you may see it after the primary few search outcomes, beneath the “Folks additionally ask” data graph part.
Google is not losing assets to generate the audio robotically, so it’s important to click on the generate button to get began. A couple of seconds later, you are given a back-and-forth dialog between two AI voices summarizing the search outcomes. The participant features a record of sources from which the overview is constructed, in addition to the choice to hurry up or decelerate playback.