Google’s NotebookLM now lets you guide the hosts of your AI podcast

Google’s NotebookLM present lets you customize its podcast-like Audio Overviews. Before you make a treatment utilizing the note-taking app, you tin springiness your AI hosts instructions astir what taxable you’d similar them to absorption on, oregon adjacent tailor their discussions for antithetic audiences.

Google launched NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews past month, with 2 AI hosts that connection a “lively” treatment of your research. The institution notes that its Audio Overviews aren’t meant to beryllium a “comprehensive oregon nonsubjective overview of a topic” and are “simply a reflection of the sources that you’ve uploaded and immoderate instructions you provide.”

To customize the chat, unfastened up a notebook successful NotebookLM, prime “Notebook guide,” and past navigate to the “Deep dive conversation” option. From there, deed “Customize,” and participate instructions that you privation your AI hosts to follow. NotebookLM volition past make a speech based connected the directions you’ve provided.

In summation to taking the “experimental” statement disconnected NotebookLM, Google is introducing inheritance listening for Audio Overviews, allowing you to perceive to the AI hosts’ treatment portion you enactment successful different areas of the app. Last month, Google besides added the quality for NotebookLM to dig deeper into YouTube videos with transcriptions.