Tech Desk 
Oct 28, 2024
Meta has introduced an “open” execution of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. The tool is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered podcast generator, through which users can upload a PDF file and the tool will turn it into an audio podcast with two artificial intelligence (AI) characters.
The newly launched tool uses three different Llama 3.1 AI models to complete the entire process.
The company said that the project uses iMeta’s Llama models for much of the processing, unsurprisingly. This tool can easily create back-and-forth, podcast-style digests of text files uploaded to it.
Firstly, NotebookLlama generates a transcript from a file — for example, a PDF of a news article or blog post. After that, it includes “more dramatisation” and interruptions before boarding the transcript to open text-to-speech models.
The meta-researchers behind this project claimed that the quality could be enhanced with stronger models.
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In a NotebookLlama’s GitHub page, researchers stated: “The text-to-speech model is the limitation of how natural this will sound.”
“Moreover, another approach to writing the podcast would be having two agents debate the topic of interest and write the podcast outline. Currently, we use a single model to write the podcast outline,” researchers added.
