NotebookLM’s greatest trick simply landed in Chrome for Android

NoteBookLM is Google’s AI-powered research tool, and certainly 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 approach. For those who’re attempting to learn by means of a sequence of lengthy articles or textbooks, Audio Overviews is a method to make the method extra gratifying, and now it is making its method 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 function 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 fashion.

So when you’re on an extended webpage and wish it summarized, or simply need to take heed to an article on the go, Chrome’s new Audio Overview function will come in useful. Nevertheless, even if in case you have the newest Chrome replace, the function is probably not obtainable to you but, as Google is rolling it out progressively to everybody, more likely to stamp out any points earlier than a wider launch. It is also at the moment solely obtainable on the Android app, so when you’re on iOS, you are out of luck in the meanwhile. With all that in thoughts, this is the right way to verify to see if in case you have it and the right way to use it.

How one can use Audio Overviews in Chrome for Android

You could find it underneath the Hearken to this web page function

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 bit of textual content on it, then faucet the Extra icon (the three dots within the prime 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 function 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 function a number of instances whereas researching materials, and I discover it to be the perfect function it presents. So, the truth that it is now obtainable on Chrome is de facto 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 develop this function to extra Android gadgets quickly, and in addition to iOS, so iPhone customers can make the most of it as effectively. Is the brand new Audio Overview function obtainable for you on Google Chrome for Android? Tell us within the feedback under.