- Beta code hints that Gemini will have access to NotebookLM
- NotebookLM will allow Gemini to create AI podcasts from PDFs or videos
- Linked to your mobile, AI podcasts could help you learn about any topic around you
Diving deep into the code of the latest beta version of Google Gemini application, it looks like GoogleIt is CarnetLM AI podcast creation software could be coming to Google Gemini on your phone.
Android Authority found the following lines of code in a beta version of Gemini:
<string name="assistant_zero_state_suggestions_create_podcast_prompt_query">Generate audio overview</string>
<string name="assistant_zero_state_suggestions_create_podcast_snippet_highlight">Generate audio</string>
<string name="assistant_zero_state_suggestions_create_podcast_snippet_simplified">overview</string>As you can see, “create_podcast” and “Generate audio preview” are visible, indicating that Gemini will have the option to generate a podcast. Additionally, the NotebookLM section that creates the podcast is called an audio preview. Taken together, these two elements seem to indicate a role for Google’s NotebookLM in a future version of Gemini.
How would this work?
Of all the weird and wonderful uses of AI coming in 2024, Google’s NotebookLM remains one of the most exciting. NotebookLM contains a number of products that use AI to help you learn any subject. You introduce your source material as a text, PDF, or video file, and it helps you organize that material. One way to do this is to use audio previews.
An audio preview is essentially an audio file that takes the form of a podcast show between two hosts discussing the topic that you have delivered to it via PDFs, web pages, or a YouTube video. Listening to two people discuss a topic is a great way to help you learn more.
What makes NotebookLM great is the realism of the podcast. It’s very hard to believe you’re not listening to two real people discussing the topic at hand.
If Gemini gives you the ability to create audio podcasts from the data sources you feed it, then it will be a great way to help you discover new topics.
You can imagine the situation where you upload a PDF to Gemini and then ask it, “Hey, can you do a podcast for me about this PDF?” Combine this with Google Lensand you might be able to ask Gemini to generate podcasts about the things you watch. Just imagine taking a tour around a famous building, like the Vatican, or having Gemini produce a podcast about the building that serves as a guided tour.
The potential for NotebookLM to integrate with other apps or be useful in new situations is almost limitless, and we expect to see Google come up with some exciting new ways to use it in the very near future.