Google's AI-based note-taking and research assistant NoteBooklm offers audio overview functionality in 76 new languages. The audio summary, launched last year, allows users to generate podcasts using AI virtual hosts based on documents they share with NotebookLM, such as course metering and legal briefs.
The idea behind this feature is to provide an alternative way to digest and understand the information in documents that users have uploaded to the app. This extension allows more people to use audio overviews in their preferred language.
Google has noted that audio overviews have been generated in the account's preferred language so far. Currently, the company is introducing a new “output language” option that allows users to choose which language to generate an audio overview.
Google says that you can change the language anytime, making it easy to create multilingual content and study materials whenever you want.
“For example, teachers preparing lessons for Amazon Rainforest can share resources with students in a variety of languages, including Portuguese documentaries, Spanish research papers, and English learning reports,” Google wrote in a blog post. “Students can upload these and generate audio overviews of important insights in the language of their choice.”
Google emailed TechCrunch and the new supported languages include Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish (Europe, Latin America, Mexico), Estonian, Basque, Persian, Persian, Finnish, Filikin, European, French (Europe), French (Canada), Haitian Creole, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese.
Also Javanase, Georgian, Kannada, Korean, Konkani, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Michilles, Macedonian, Malayalam, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Burmese (Myanmar (Myanmar), Nepal, Dutch, Norwegian (Ninorsk), Norwegian (Bokmur), Panayya Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Cindy, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified).