NotebookLM’s finest trick simply landed in C...

NoteBookLM is Google’s AI-powered research tool, and certainly one of my favourite options it has is the power to create Audio Overviews of the fabric you are finding out. These Audio Overviews work equally to a podcast, and have two AI-generated hosts discussing the fabric in a conversational and fascinating approach. When you’re making an attempt to learn via a collection of lengthy articles or textbooks, Audio Overviews is a approach to make the method extra pleasing, and now it is making its approach to Google Chrome on Android.

With the most recent Chrome replace on Android (model 140.0.7339.124), Google is rolling out the power to make an AI-generated Audio Overview of any webpage you are studying (by way of Android Authority). The function works precisely prefer it does in NoteBookLM. Whenever you allow it, Google’s AI creates a abstract of the webpage, which is then learn again to you in a podcast-like fashion.

So in the event you’re on an extended webpage and wish it summarized, or simply wish to hearken to an article on the go, Chrome’s new Audio Overview function will come in useful. Nonetheless, even in case you have the most recent Chrome replace, the function might not be obtainable to you but, as Google is rolling it out regularly to everybody, more likely to stamp out any points earlier than a wider launch. It is also presently solely obtainable on the Android app, so in the event you’re on iOS, you are out of luck in the interim. With all that in thoughts, here is the best way to verify to see in case you have it and the best way to use it.

The right way to use Audio Overviews in Chrome for Android

You will discover it beneath the Hearken to this web page function

If you would like to check Audio Overviews on Chrome for Android your self, it is comparatively easy to take action. The very first thing you will must do is open a webpage with a piece of textual content on it, then faucet the Extra icon (the three dots within the high proper of your display) and choose Hearken to this web page.

By default, Hearken to this web page merely reads the web page aloud to you in full, with no summarization. Nonetheless, if the brand new Audio Overview function is out there to you, you can faucet a button within the backside left-hand nook of the display that resembles an audio waveform with a star in it. Whenever you press it, you will see “Producing AI playback” seem in your display, and you can hearken to the web page in an AI-generated podcast-like format that summarizes it for you.

I’ve used NoteBookLM’s Audio Overview function a number of occasions whereas researching materials, and I discover it to be the perfect function it gives. So, the truth that it is now obtainable on Chrome is de facto handy. The one actual draw back is that the AI voices sound fairly generic and lack emotional depth, however I suppose that’s to be anticipated from AI.

Hopefully, Google will develop this function to extra Android units quickly, and likewise to iOS, so iPhone customers can benefit from it as effectively. Is the brand new Audio Overview function obtainable for you on Google Chrome for Android? Tell us within the feedback under.