April 30th.GoogleAnnouncing its AI-based note-taking and research assistant tool NotebookLM The new Audio Overviews feature adds support for 76 languages. Launched last year, the feature is designed to help users understand and digest information in documents in a different way by generating podcasts based on documents they upload to NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal briefs, with an artificially intelligent virtual host.
Previously, the Audio Overview feature only supported the preferred language set by the user's account, Google said. Now, with the addition of the "Output Language" option, users are free to choose the language in which they want to generate their Audio Overview. Google emphasizes that users can change their language settings at any time, making it easy to create multilingual content or learning materials as needed.
Google gives an example of the usefulness of this feature in a blog post, "For example, an instructor preparing a course on the Amazon rainforest can share resources in multiple languages with students, such as a Portuguese documentary, a Spanish research paper, and an English study report. Students can upload these materials to NotebookLM and generate audio overviews of key points in their preferred language."
Note: Newly supported languages include Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish (Europe, Latin America, Mexico), Estonian, Basque, Farsi, Finnish, Filipino, French (Europe), 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, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian (New Norwegian), Norwegian (Written Norwegian), Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Portuguese (Brazilian, Portuguese), Romanian, Russian, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian (Cyrillic alphabet), Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional).