Google's AI podcast creator: Turn your notes into audio

Google is set to turn your research into an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated podcast, complete with two “hosts” that talk about what you’ve dug up.

The experimental feature lives within NotebookLM, the AI note-taking app Google released last year, and would have AI hosts “summarise your material, make links between topics, and banter back and forth.”

It results in building on NotebookLM’s existing features that help you interact with all your notes, transcripts, and other research documents. The app already utilises Google’s Gemini AI model to help summarise your research, and this is similar to the audio version of that.

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Meanwhile, Alphabet-owned Google isn’t making things up when it says AI hosts will “banter” with each other. The feature makes learning about research more interactive.

You can try out the feature for yourself by opening up a notebook in NotebookLM. From there, choose the Notebook guide in the bottom-right corner of the screen, and then hit Load beneath the “Audio Overview” heading.