NotebookLM gains podcast-like audio overviews with live Q&A

Google is upgrading NotebookLM, its AI tool for asking questions about a set of documents, with new “audio overviews” that generate a podcast-like discussion between two speakers.

The feature was presented from the perspective of someone who learns best when listening rather than just reading. In the on-stage example, NotebookLM was given a set of simple physics lessons as its base context. By generating an audio overview, the tool generated a conversation between two speakers and voiced both participants in real time.

At one point, Google’s Josh Woodward verbally asked NotebookLM, “Hey, can you give my son Jimmy a basketball example?” A few seconds later, the two AI-generated presenters discussed how basketball connects to the physics lesson at hand, relating it to the concept of force.

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