Five Productivity Hacks Using Google’s New AI Podcast Creator [Video]

The new Audio Overview feature in Google‘s AI tool, NotebookLM, allows you to create realistic podcast-like conversations from webpages, slides, PDFs, uploaded text, and more.

Google describes this feature as providing “lively ‘deep dive’ discussions that summarize the key topics in your sources.” Using Google’s own proprietary LLM (large language model), Gemini 1.5 Pro, the resulting “podcast” is a conversation between two AI-generated hosts who introduce and talk through the source material you feed in.

It can be anything from a few minutes long to around the 20-minute mark and the length seems randomly generated; it’s not possible to choose how long you want the conversation to come in at. However, the audio is generated as a WAV file and can be downloaded and edited by the user.

This conversation between two hosts takes a few minutes to generate and is in addition to a text summary and prompts to help create a FAQ, study guide, …