NotebookLM’s greatest trick simply landed in Chrome for Android

NoteBookLM is Google’s AI-powered research tool, and considered one of my favourite options it has is the flexibility to create Audio Overviews of the fabric you are learning. These Audio Overviews work equally to a podcast, and have two AI-generated hosts discussing the fabric in a conversational and interesting manner. For those who’re making an attempt to learn by way of a collection of lengthy articles or textbooks, Audio Overviews is a approach to make the method extra satisfying, and now it is making its approach to Google Chrome on Android.

With the newest Chrome replace on Android (model 140.0.7339.124), Google is rolling out the flexibility to make an AI-generated Audio Overview of any webpage you are studying (by way of Android Authority). The characteristic 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 model.

So when you’re on a protracted webpage and need it summarized, or simply need to take heed to an article on the go, Chrome’s new Audio Overview characteristic will come in useful. Nevertheless, even you probably have the newest Chrome replace, the characteristic might not be obtainable to you but, as Google is rolling it out step by step to everybody, prone to stamp out any points earlier than a wider launch. It is also at present solely obtainable on the Android app, so when you’re on iOS, you are out of luck in the intervening time. With all that in thoughts, here is the right way to test to see you probably have it and the right 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 characteristic

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 may have to 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. Nevertheless, if the brand new Audio Overview characteristic is out there to you, you’ll 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 may see “Producing AI playback” seem in your display, and you’ll take heed to the web page in an AI-generated podcast-like format that summarizes it for you.

I’ve used NoteBookLM’s Audio Overview characteristic a number of occasions whereas researching materials, and I discover it to be one of the best characteristic it affords. So, the truth that it is now obtainable on Chrome is actually 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 increase this characteristic to extra Android gadgets quickly, and likewise to iOS, so iPhone customers can make the most of it as nicely. Is the brand new Audio Overview characteristic obtainable for you on Google Chrome for Android? Tell us within the feedback under.