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NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

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242 points alphabetting | 3 comments | 17 Oct 24 16:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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xnx ◴[17 Oct 24 18:20 UTC] No.41872217[source]▶
In a sea of similar tools, Google seems to have struck on something semi-viral with NotebookLM. Output can be mediocre, but with the bar for many podcasts being set at "read pages from Wikipedia", that's not bad at all for zero effort.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=NotebookLM...

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1. cchance ◴[17 Oct 24 19:14 UTC] No.41872817[source]▶
I really wish it had more voices, notebooklm-guy and notebooklm-girl get tiring
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2. kxrm ◴[17 Oct 24 19:26 UTC] No.41872920[source]▶
Definitely hear what you are saying but I personally think it is for the best that they are instantly recognizable as NotebookLM podcasters. Especially as this makes the rounds on the internet. If you could manipulate the voices it would just make it more challenging to detect if a "Podcast" is using this tool.
3. xnx ◴[17 Oct 24 21:19 UTC] No.41873913[source]▶
Now that NotebookLM has gone from "small experiment" to "moderate viral success", I expect all kinds of roadmaps are being drawn up to use it to hook users into the broader Google AI ecosystem (e.g. automatically add images and illustrations by Imagen 3, etc.