Peter and Jane from NotebookLM discuss my Nordic FinTech Magazine Conversational AI 'report'
If you haven't come across Google's NotebookLM, it's worthwhile checking it out. Like many I've been playing around with it and finding it working very nicely when I throw a whole load of sources together and start querying it.
So far, so good.
But I was curious to try out the 'audio overview' feature. You might have heard this already: It's absolutely astonishing.
NotebookLM takes a topic and then records a little 'podcast show' from the content you've supplied. There's a bit of dramatic license taken, but essentially it aims to make a 2-person audio conversation discussing the content.
I thought I'd try it with my article that Chris Crespo and the team at Nordic FinTech Magazine published in their 2024 Fall Edition. (I wrote a post highlighting this earlier today: Conversational AI: The Next Banking Interface.)
I logged into NotebookLM and then was a little stumped when I realised it wouldn't handle .doc files. I converted the article to PDF and dropped it in.
Within a moment, it was ready to query.
On the top right there, under "audio overview", I asked it to create one.
I waited perhaps a minute or two.
And then... boom.
It's created a really professionally sounding podcast – or, actually, NPR-style radio review of the topic. I have named the chap 'Peter' and the lady 'Jane'.
Do you want to know what it sounds like?
Here we go:
Deeply, deeply impressive.
Let me know what you think?
Here's the podcast episode I produced – including the NotebookLM audio too:
Try it out yourself at http://notebooklm.google.
(Hat tip to Mark Mekki for reminding me to go and try NotebookLM again this evening).
