Google’s AI-based note-taking and analysis assistant NotebookLM is making its Audio Overviews function out there in 76 new languages, the corporate introduced on Tuesday. Audio Overviews launched final 12 months to present customers the flexibility to generate a podcast with AI digital hosts primarily based on paperwork they’ve shared with NotebookLM, resembling course readings or authorized briefs.
The thought behind the function is to present customers one other solution to digest and comprehend the knowledge within the paperwork they’ve uploaded to the app. With this enlargement, extra individuals can use Audio Overviews of their most popular language.
Google notes that up till now, Audio Overviews have been generated in your account’s most popular language. Now the corporate is introducing a brand new “Output Language” possibility that may permit customers to decide on which language their Audio Overviews are generated in.
You can change the language at any time, making it simple to create multilingual content material or examine supplies as wanted, Google says.
“For instance, a instructor making ready a lesson on the Amazon rainforest can share assets in numerous languages — like a Portuguese documentary, a Spanish analysis paper, and English examine studies — with their college students,” Google wrote in a weblog put up. “The college students can add these and may generate an Audio Overview of key insights of their most popular language.”
Google instructed TechCrunch in an e mail that the brand new supported languages embody Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish (European, Latin American, Mexico), Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Filipino, French (European), French (Canada), Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Croatian, Haitian Creole, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, and Japanese.
They additionally embody Javanese, Georgian, Kannada, Korean, Konkani, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maithili, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Burmese (Myanmar), Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norwegian (Bokmål), Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), and Chinese (Traditional).
