Discover audio summaries in NotebookLM! 🎧

Do you ever feel that you are wasting time when you want to go through a long text or video? What if I told you there is a way around it? It is called NotebookLM by Google, and the audio summary feature!

How does it work? Very simply. I create a notebook in NotebookLM and drop in links to the sources I care about, for example articles or videos on YouTube. Then I go to the Studio tab and set up my audio summary there. I set a few parameters by writing a short prompt with instructions on how the audio should sound. At the end I press generate and in a dozen or so minutes I get the finished audio, which I can listen to whenever it suits me.

In the picture above: setting up the audio in the web version of Google’s NotebookLM

Thanks to audio summaries in NotebookLM:

🔹 I saved time - an audio summary lets me pull the most important information out of very large sources. Now I have more time for other things.

🔹 I can go through the key information in a form that suits me - I love listening to podcasts on the way to work.

🔹 I understand the content better - the generated audio lets me listen to it as a discussion between two AI voices.

Give it a go and see how it works! 🚀

Playing the audio in the NotebookLM mobile app by Google

Generating audio in the NotebookLM mobile app by Google