{"id":5451,"date":"2024-12-19T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T01:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T01:40:01","slug":"mobileviews-mini-podcast-49-google-notebooklm-synthetic-podcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/19\/mobileviews-mini-podcast-49-google-notebooklm-synthetic-podcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Mini-podcast 49: Google NotebookLM synthetic podcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"MobileViews Mini-podcast 49: Google NotebookLM synthetic podcasting\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=8dg5w-177af6c-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MViews-mini-49-notebooklm-1024x582.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"582\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MViews-mini-49-notebooklm-1024x582.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MViews-mini-49-notebooklm-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MViews-mini-49-notebooklm-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MViews-mini-49-notebooklm-1536x874.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MViews-mini-49-notebooklm-2048x1165.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first podcast section was recorded outdoors to test the iRay DW40 4-channel wireless lavalier microphone kit.<\/p>\n<p>The second section was generated by <a href=\"https:\/\/notebooklm.google.com\/\">Google NotebookLM<\/a>&#8216;s Audio Overview feature to create a synthetic podcast-like discussion using text-based source material. For this example, I wrote a text discussing three of my 2024 tech grievances (with a nod to Seinfeld&#8217;s Festivus). A PDF of this text was uploaded to NotebookLM as a source document.<\/p>\n<p>In the first section I mentioned testing the relatively new NotebookLM Audio Overview &#8220;chat&#8221; feature which lets you (the human) interject into the synthetic podcasters&#8217; ongoing discussion and have &#8220;them&#8221; respond to the newly introduced material. Unfortunately, it turns out that the audio file saved only included the originally created audio summary. I&#8217;ll use an external recording setup to record my next attempt to use this feature to create a longer Airing of Tech Grievances for a full podcast that will include grievances from several friends.<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of spots where the synth-podcasters misinterpreted what I wrote in the source document (mild &#8220;hallucinations&#8221;). However, overall, I&#8217;m impressed by NotebookLM&#8221;s podcast output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first podcast section was recorded outdoors to test the iRay DW40 4-channel wireless lavalier microphone kit. The second section was generated by Google NotebookLM&#8216;s Audio Overview feature to create a synthetic podcast-like discussion using text-based source material. For this example, I wrote a text discussing three of my 2024 tech grievances (with a nod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-1pV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5454,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions\/5454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}