Google Thursday updated the audio summary function of its AI and research notes assistant Notebookwho recently drew significant attention to his Podcast type The content -based audio conversations share users, with the possibility of guiding these conversations and focusing on specific subjects instead of simply generating holistic audio summaries.
Today, audio previews in Notebooklm allow users to digest and understand information in long documents or videos via audio conversations generated by AI. Shortly after her launch Last month, the functionality helped notebook to enter eyeballs, because many began to share audio summaries of their content on social networks, including those created using their Intimate newspapers or reviews.
Although Google has not disclosed the traction notebook has received data from the website traffic analysis platform as a result Similar Suggers Notebooklm experienced an increase of more than 371% of its traffic in September at 3.07 million monthly visits, against 652,181 a month ago.
Until now, audio previews would automatically generate conversations on AI from user sources. But as conversations sometimes revolve around the content that is not important, Google introduces an update that allows you to customize the glimpses according to your needs. This allows users to make audio more focused on a particular subject within their content.
A dedicated “personalized” control is available before the existing “generate” button to allow you to provide instructions to AI hosts in audio to focus on a specific point.
Raiza Martin, product manager of notebooklm and senior product manager for AI at Google Labs, told Techcrunch that the update gives users a way to push AI to move in one direction they wanted .
“The whole team was devoted to listening and analyzing all the comments we have obtained. And the number one function that emerged that people wanted was just to give a boost to AI, “she said.
Personalization of audio summaries can also help reduce hallucinations to a certain extent, which means that times the AI cooks in itself. Nevertheless, Martin said that the notebooklm team follows user comments and tries to capture hallucinations as quickly as possible.
She also pointed out that personalization of audio summaries does not mean that user instructions would be used to form the AI model.
“In general, we do not lead to user data. Thus, your use, or whatever the requests you enter, whatever the answers you enter, we do not form the models with him, “she said, adding:” We are soliciting a lot of comments from comments Our users. “”
In addition to the personalization option, users receive history in audio previews. This allows you to continue working in Notebooklm, question your sources, receive quotes and explore relevant quotes while the audio plays in the background.
Notebooklm was initially launched as a project at the Google d’E / s conference for developers last year and made its debut for public access In the United States in December. He extended to markets, especially India, the United KingdomAnd more than 200 countries in June. Although the product initially experienced a certain traction in the use of education and research, companies and organizations only started to try it after Google has expanded its support for more sources and added new features.
Now Google says that more than 80,000 organizations use Notebooklm, which it considers an opportunity to explore monetization. Hoping to capitalize on this traction, the company launched the Pilot Business Pilot Notebook program on Thursday.
Companies can apply for the pilot and, if accepted, said Google, they will have early access to product features, training and e-mail assistance.
Martin told Techcrunch that under the business pilot, his team trains organizations interested in using Notebooklm on how other companies use it.
“We want (also) that companies tell us, here are the features we want to deploy,” she said.
The general availability and the pricing of Carnetlm Carnet’s activities will be announced later this year. However, Google has not yet revealed the exact calendar and details on price levels.
Notebooklm currently obtains 4.17 million monthly visits, with 2.5 million office offices and 1.6 million mobile devices, per similar.
The assistant at present does not have a dedicated mobile application and is available on screens via their website. However, Martin told Techcrunch that the team actively explored a native mobile experience to extend the presence of notebooklm among smartphones users. He also explores more voices, languages and controls for audio previews.
In addition, the team explored and prototyped different numbers of speakers – to go beyond the two existing speakers for AI Audio discussions – although it is probably not available soon, because Martin said that this was not the most remarkable feature of users.
Last month, notebooklm Adding YouTube videos and audio files As sources to generate summaries alongside existing sources such as Google Drive, URL, PDF and text.
Martin said that Notebooklm considers PDF and Youtube videos as the two main sources. The team also observed a “very high percentage” of users who listened to an audio preview and used the cat. The largest group includes users who only use the cat without generating an audio overview.