Learning Timeline
Key Insights
Two-Way Conversation Format
NotebookLM automatically creates two distinct AI personalities: one acts as the interviewer and the other as an expert explaining concepts, making the information much easier to digest than plain text.
Document Analysis Limits
This AI can process very long documents (up to 50 pages or more) at once to identify connections between key arguments that might be missed during manual reading.
Pro Tip for Quality Audio
Ensure uploaded PDFs have readable text (not just blurry scans) so the AI can accurately extract facts before generating the audio.
Step by Step
Steps to Generate an Audio Overview (AI Podcast) in NotebookLM
- Visit the NotebookLM website and log in using your Google account.
- Click on 'New Notebook' to start a new project.
- Upload your source documents (such as research paper PDFs or long reports) using the 'Upload' or 'Add Source' buttons.
- Wait for NotebookLM to finish processing and indexing your documents.
- Open the 'Notebook Guide' section located in the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Find the 'Audio Overview' section within the guide panel.
- Click the 'Generate' button to start creating a podcast-style conversation.
- Wait a few minutes while the AI analyzes the key arguments and builds a dialogue script between two AI hosts.
- Click the 'Play' button on the audio player that appears to listen to your podcast.
