• Google NotebookLM goes global with multilingual AI video summarie

    From TechnologyDaily@1337:1/100 to All on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 04:45:08
    Google NotebookLM goes global with multilingual AI video summaries of your notes

    Date:
    Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:30:00 +0000

    Description:
    NotebookLMs newest upgrade brings multilingual video and audio summaries to a global audience.

    FULL STORY ======================================================================Googles NotebookLM now supports Video Overviews in dozens of languages The upgrade gives Video Overviews the same language options as the Audio Overviews NotebookLM creates its summaries from actual uploaded documents

    Googles NotebookLM first debuted its AI-powered research tool with Audio Overviews capable of making AI-produced 'podcasts' with digital hosts. The logical extension into Video Overviews followed , with a synthetic voice accompanied by a series of slides that include text and illustrations. However, that capability was only available in English until now.

    NotebookLM Video Overviews are now available in more than 80 languages. For most people, that translates to translatable versions of video walkthroughs based on your uploaded notes and linked source materials. The AI professor is already there and is now a multilingual expert as they present your own content in everything from Tamil to Polish and beyond.

    These arent AI summaries scraped from the web or hallucinated based on a
    vague prompt. NotebookLM is grounded in the actual material you upload. Everything the AI says, in video or audio, is pulled directly from your documents, not from generic training data.

    Of course, the video in this context isn't a cinematic masterpiece. The
    slides are not fully animated explainers. This isnt TikTok for term papers; its more like PowerPoint for people who dont want to make PowerPoints. The goal is clarity, not spectacle. Global AI video

    That's not the only global upgrade to NotebookLM, though. While Audio Overviews had been available in many languages recently, they were limited to brief highlights. Now, everyone gets the complete audio AI experience as an alternative to the video option.

    For those who might want to read a white paper while driving or cooking, this is enormously practical. It wont win a Grammy, but it might just help you understand a textbook or complex report. Professionals working
    internationally could use it to summarize a weeks worth of meeting
    transcripts as shareable videos or audio recaps from Catalan to Portuguese.
    No need to rely on a colleagues English comprehension.

    If you want to see how AI can digest and explain your collection of academic papers, blog posts, and YouTube videos, you can produce a narrated video by uploading your sources as usual, then clicking on the Video Overview button. Shortly, a video of approximately seven minutes will be ready for you to share, download, or use as you wish.

    Thats not to say this solves everything. The AI can still struggle with nuance, for instance. But the reliability of the presentations is valuable on its own. Now, they just look good too. You might also like I tried using NotebookLMs new AI Video Overviews and ended up with some usefully informative, but rather dull PowerPoint presentations Google will turn those long documents into your next favorite podcast I fed NotebookLM a 218-page research paper on string theory and the podcast results were mind-blowing



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    Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/gemini/google-notebooklm-goe s-global-with-multilingual-ai-video-summaries-of-your-notes


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