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Google has made yet another helpful addition to its AI-powered note-taking platform NotebookLM. Users can now convert their notes into a series of narrated slides.
The new feature is called Video Overview, and Google is promoting it as a visual alternative to the existing Audio Overview. While Audio Overview lets you convert notes into a podcast between two AI hosts, the new feature lets an AI host generate slides and add a voiceover.
To create the slides, Video Overview pulls images, diagrams, quotes, and numbers from your sources. The output will help explain data, demonstrate processes, and make abstract concepts more tangible, Google says.
You can also customize a Video Overview to your needs. The prompt can contain instructions for areas of focus, learning goals, target audience, and more. If you’re new to the subject and require a simple walkthrough, you can mention that in generic terms. If you’re an expert and need to jump to a specific portion, you can mention that as well.
Video Overview is rolling out in English to all users, with support for more languages arriving soon. When available, the feature will be placed next to Audio Overview in the Studio panel on the right side of your screen. For now, it only supports the slideshow format, but Google says support for more formats will be added in the future.
We couldn’t test it right away, but a video demo suggests the slides will have playback controls for narration speed and to skip back and forth by 10 seconds.
Alongside Video Overview, Google announced a redesign for the Studio tab. In the next few weeks, you will be able to use multiple Studio options simultaneously, meaning you can listen to an Audio Overview and explore a Mind Map simultaneously.
The biggest change, however, comes in the number of studio outputs you can create. “You can now create and store multiple studio outputs of the same type in a single notebook,” Google says.