Google’s NotebookLM now enables you to information the hosts of your AI podcast

Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize its podcast-like Audio Overviews. Earlier than you generate a dialogue utilizing the note-taking app, you can provide your AI hosts directions about what subject you’d like them to give attention to, and even tailor their discussions for various audiences.

Google launched NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews final month, with two AI hosts that supply a “full of life” dialogue of your analysis. The corporate notes that its Audio Overviews aren’t meant to be a “complete or goal overview of a subject” and are “merely a mirrored image of the sources that you just’ve uploaded and any directions you present.”

To customise the chat, open up a pocket book in NotebookLM, choose “Pocket book information,” after which navigate to the “Deep dive dialog” possibility. From there, hit “Customise,” and enter directions that you really want your AI hosts to comply with. NotebookLM will then generate a dialog primarily based on the instructions you’ve offered.

Along with taking the “experimental” label off NotebookLM, Google is introducing background listening for Audio Overviews, permitting you to hearken to the AI hosts’ dialogue whilst you work in different areas of the app. Final month, Google additionally added the flexibility for NotebookLM to dig deeper into YouTube movies with transcriptions.