NotebookLM now makes AI podcasts in dozens of new languages
Google’s AI-based note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM has expanded its Audio Overviews feature to 76 new languages, the company announced on Tuesday. This feature, launched last year, allows users to generate a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on documents shared with NotebookLM.
The Audio Overviews feature is designed to help users digest and comprehend information in uploaded documents. With this expansion, users can now access Audio Overviews in their preferred language. Previously, Audio Overviews were generated in the user’s account preferred language.
Google has introduced a new “Output Language” option, allowing users to choose the language for their Audio Overviews. This change enables users to create multilingual content or study materials as needed. Users can change the language at any time.
For example, a teacher preparing a lesson on the Amazon rainforest can share resources in various languages, such as a Portuguese documentary, a Spanish research paper, and English study reports, with their students. The students can then upload these resources and generate an Audio Overview of key insights in their preferred language.
- Languages added: 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, Japanese, 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).