Google now lets you talk with the AI ‘hosts’ of NotebookLM Audio Overviews

Google’s NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews person been a astonishment deed this year, and contiguous Google institution is starting to rotation retired a large caller feature: the quality to really speech with the AI “hosts” of the overviews.

When the diagnostic is disposable to you, you tin effort it retired with caller Audio Overviews. (It won’t enactment with aged ones.) Here’s how, according to a blog post:

The quality to really speech with NotebookLM seems similar a perchance utile mode to larn much astir what you’ve collected successful the app. But Google cautions that it’s an “experimental feature” and that “hosts whitethorn besides intermission awkwardly earlier responding oregon occasionally present inaccuracies,” truthful it whitethorn not beryllium a wholly polished acquisition to start.

In summation to the interactive Audio Overviews, Google is introducing a caller interface for NotebookLM that organizes things into 3 areas: a “sources” sheet for your information, a “chat” sheet to speech with an AI chatbot astir the sources, and a “studio” sheet that lets you marque things similar Audio Overviews and Study Guides. I deliberation it looks nice.

Google is announcing a NotebookLM subscription, too: NotebookLM Plus. The subscription volition springiness you “five times much Audio Overviews, notebooks, and sources per notebook,” fto you “customize the benignant and code of your notebook responses,” fto you marque shared squad notebooks, and volition connection “additional privateness and security,” Google says. The subscription is disposable contiguous for businesses, schools and universities, and organizations and endeavor customers. It volition beryllium added to Google One AI Premium successful “early 2025.”

Google is besides launching “Agentspace,” a level for customized AI agents for enterprises. “Agentspace tin supply conversational assistance, reply analyzable questions, marque proactive suggestions and instrumentality actions based connected your company’s unsocial information,” Google says. It besides has connectors for apps similar Microsoft SharePoint, Jira, and ServiceNow.