Tushar Mehta / Android Authority
TL;DR You can now generate NotebookLM-style podcasts for PDFs stored in Google Drive.
The feature generates audio overviews for PDFs and stores them as separate audio files in your Drive.
It’s currently limited to Google Workspace and Gemini AI Pro/Ultra users and only works for documents in English.
NotebookLM, Google’s research sidekick, is easily one of its most powerful AI tools. Although it packs a handsome set of features that make deep investigations far easier, features like audio and video overview make the learning process much more engaging. Inspired by its popularity, Google is extending one of these features to other apps.
Google is now expanding NotebookLM’s audio overviews to PDF files saved in your Google Drive. With this, content from any PDF can be converted into audio summaries with the same interactive podcast style as NotebookLM’s audio overviews.
Now, when you open a PDF file on your Google Drive, you will see a dedicated button to generate an audio overview at the top of the document preview. You can either click the button or type a prompt in the sidebar dedicated to interacting with Gemini. Based on the length of the document, Drive will generate an audio overview that’s anywhere between two and 10 minutes long, Google mentions in its announcement.
Currently, you can only create audio overviews on the web; however, we hope Google will add support for this feature in mobile apps soon.
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