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NotebookLM’s Audio Overview Secret Sauce
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NotebookLM leverages the power of Gemini 1.5 Pro and a robust voice model.
The key differentiator is its “Content Studio,” which takes an opinionated approach to content and aims for maximum helpfulness.
Lenny Rachitsky
How did you train this model to create a podcast that’s this good? So we could start with the first and then get into the second.
Raiza Martin
Yeah. I mean, that’s such a great question. I mean, truly, the Gemini models are so powerful and we use Gemini 1.5 Pro as sort of the base for Notebook LM. And then we have a powerful voice model on top of it, audio model on top of it but I think the real secret sauce to what makes this really good is something we’ve built which is a content studio And you kind of see a clue of this inside notebook.lm where when you open up notebook guide notebook guide is designed to take an opinionated approach to the content that you’ve given It and what it’s really trying to do is be as helpful as possible. It gives you a summary, gives you buttons where if you click on it, it’ll write something for you. And the audio is a big part of that. And so this was very interesting for us because we had to think about what shape should that audio be in, right? Like the deep dive is the first format we’ve thought about. And we actually have a super talented engineer on our team. His name’s Usama, and he’s the real craftsman behind thinking through Content Studio and thinking about what makes something really relatable to people in a way that’s engaging, That’s interesting. So, Content Studio is the real magic here.
Lenny Rachitsky
So, when you say Content Studio, what does that mean? Yeah, what does that actually look like? What is a content studio?
Raiza Martin
I can’t share too much about how content studio works, but you can imagine it’s the same thing that powers all of Notebook LM, which is there’s different ways that you could interact With your data, right?-
NotebookLM Gmail Anecdote
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Raiza Martin shared that a company contacted Google because their employees were using NotebookLM with their work Gmail accounts, even though they weren’t supposed to.
The company then made it official for their employees to use NotebookLM at work.
Raiza Martin
Huge interest from professionals that are like, wow, I want to use this at work.
