NotebookLM, Google’s AI note-taking app, can now summarize — and help you dig deeper into — YouTube videos. The new capability works by analyzing the text in a YouTube video’s transcript, including auto-generated ones.

Intrigued, I put the feature to the test. How Google's AI podcast feature works. Google acknowledges that at this stage, NotebookLM's AI podcasts are limited to English audio and

Google's NotebookLM, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered notebook, is expanding its source base. Today, you can now add public YouTube URLs and audio files directly into your notebook. These additions let users summarize lectures, compare the contents of audio files, and transform video and .mp3/.wav audio into study guides.

The Gemini-powered tool, which allows users to upload documents or plain text and have the AI tool convert the material into digestable and simple-to-understand excerpts, can do a lot more. It can help surface key insights, help understand complex answers, and even turn your homework into an interactive podcast with Audio Overviews.

Google’s Notebook LM powered by Gemini 1.5 Pro, gets new updates including YouTube video summarizations and shareable AI-generated audio content.

Google's AI powered note taking tool NotebookLM can now summarise YouTube videos and audio files. You can also convert them into an AI generated podcast at the tap of a button. Here's how to do it.