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Notebook LM is a free AI tool from Google, now featuring Gemini 2.0. It's organized into notebooks where you can upload various sources like PDFs, text documents, and Google Docs. You can interact with your notes through conversation and get quick recaps.
Quickly repurpose notes into study guides or outlines. The study guide feature generates quizzes, essay questions, and key terms. You can also create briefing documents for concise summaries of large documents.
Use website links as sources to generate timelines. For historical topics, Notebook LM creates easy-to-follow timelines and character lists. Tools like Napkin AI can turn this text into presentation-ready graphics.
Use YouTube links as sources to have conversations and ask questions about video content. Combine multiple YouTube videos and websites as sources to get comprehensive answers on specific topics.
Use the HubSpot prompt book for better prompting of Notebook LM and other AI chatbots. It's a resource with over a thousand prompts for productivity, strategy, content creation, and SEO.
Create notebooks from voice notes recorded on your phone for quick recaps of new AI updates. You can also analyze conference calls by uploading unlisted recordings to YouTube and using the link as a source in Notebook LM.
Analyze entire books by uploading them as text files, PDFs, or via Google Docs. Notebook LM's large context window allows it to digest massive amounts of text. Generate briefing documents for quick summaries.
Translate the output from Notebook LM into different languages using tools like DeepL. Generate human-sounding podcasts based on your source material with the audio overview feature. It creates a conversation between two AI voices and is downloadable as a audio file.
Customize podcast voices using Descript and 11 Labs. Descript is used to transcribe and edit the audio by editing the text. 11 Labs allows you to replace the default voices with custom AI-generated ones for a unique-sounding podcast.
Generate video prompts for text-to-video platforms like Sora and create background music with Suno AI to summarize books. The video shows how to use HeyGen to clone yourself and create a custom AI avatar for the podcaster in the video.
A complete Notebook LM course will be available next month, covering Notebook LM Plus (the paid upgrade) and more advanced topics.