Google’s NotebookLM can help you dive deeper into YouTube videos

NotebookLM, Google’s AI note-taking app, can present summarize — and assistance you excavation deeper into — YouTube videos. The caller capableness works by analyzing the substance successful a YouTube video’s transcript, including auto-generated ones.

Once you adhd a YouTube nexus to NotebookLM, it volition usage AI to supply a little summary with cardinal topics discussed successful the transcript. You tin past click connected these topics to get much elaborate accusation arsenic good arsenic inquire questions. (If you’re struggling to travel up with thing to ask, NotebookLM volition suggest immoderate questions).

When I dropped successful The Verge’s iPhone 16 Pro review, NotebookLM generated topics discussed successful the video similar “Apple Intelligence,” “iPhone 16 Pro Camera,” and “Photo processing” successful its chat window.

After clicking connected immoderate of the topics, I recovered that NotebookLM backs up the accusation provided successful its chat model with a citation that links you straight to the constituent successful the transcript wherever it’s mentioned. You tin besides make an Audio Overview based connected the content, which is simply a podcast-style treatment hosted by AI.

I recovered that the diagnostic worked connected astir videos that I tried, but for ones published wrong the past 2 days oregon so.

While Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot tin both summarize YouTube videos with transcripts, NotebookLM gives you immoderate jumping-off points you tin usage to larn much astir a topic. In summation to adding enactment for YouTube videos, Google announced that NotebookLM present supports audio recordings arsenic well, allowing you to hunt transcribed conversations for definite accusation and make survey guides.