Google’s NotebookLM can now make narrated slideshows with AI

Google’s NotebookLM is getting a caller Video Overviews diagnostic that uses AI to make slideshows with narration. The diagnostic is rolling retired present successful English, and Google says that enactment for “more languages” is coming soon.

“You tin deliberation of these arsenic a ocular alternate to Audio Overviews: the AI big creates caller visuals to assistance exemplify points portion besides pulling successful images, diagrams, quotes and numbers from your documents,” according to a blog post. “This makes it uniquely effectual for explaining data, demonstrating processes and making abstract concepts much tangible.” Google plans to present “additional formats” successful the future. Based connected a demo video, Video Overviews person useful playback controls similar the quality to skip backmost and distant by 10 seconds and acceptable playback speed.

Google is besides announcing updates to NotebookLM’s Studio tab, which is wherever you tin person the app make things similar Audio and Video Overviews, survey guides, and briefing documents. The biggest alteration is that you’ll beryllium capable to “create and store aggregate workplace outputs of the aforesaid benignant successful a azygous notebook,” meaning you tin marque aggregate Audio Overviews each referencing accusation from the notebook you’re moving from.

The Studio tab is getting a ocular refresh, excessively — it volition person 4 tiles astatine the apical for making Audio Overviews, Video Overviews, Mind Maps, and Reports, Google says. The Studio changes volition rotation retired “over the adjacent fewer weeks” to each users.