Google’s NoteBookLM is one of my favorite tools. I can simply feed it a text, website and other content and have it create a study guide, table of content, timeline, or briefing doc. You can also create a podcast with two hosts discussing it. The latest update now lets you customize these discussions. You can pick and choose what the AI hosts should focus on:
You can ask the hosts to focus on a specific source, topic or target audience. This gives you incredible flexibility to create an audio that matches exactly what you need. I noticed this feature only works for new audio files created. The older ones simply do not have the option to customize. You can see the difference here:
Google announced the news on X:
✨ New features coming to NotebookLM ✨
🗣️ Customize Audio Overviews and guide the conversation
🤝 Collaborate with teammates in the NotebookLM Business pilot program
🎧 Listen to Audio Overviews while continuing to work
See what else is new ↓ https://t.co/uDvxff3947— Google (@Google) October 17, 2024
