Google Expands NotebookLM Podcast Tool to Support More Languages

Google announced on Tuesday that NotebookLM, its AI-powered research and note-taking tool, will expand its Audio Overviews feature to include 76 new languages. Last year, Audio Overviews was released to allow users to use resources they have shared with NotebookLM, like as legal documents or course readings, to produce podcasts with AI virtual hosts.

This feature aims to give users another way to comprehend and digest the information in the papers they have uploaded to the app. This expansion enables the usage of Audio Overviews in more languages.

Google observes that the preferred language associated with your account has been used to generate Audio Overviews thus far. The business is now offering a new “Output Language” option that will let users select the language in which their Audio Overviews are generated.

According to Google, it’s simple to create multilingual content or study materials as needed because you may switch the language at any moment.

“For example, a teacher preparing a lesson on the Amazon rainforest can share resources in various languages — like a Portuguese documentary, a Spanish research paper, and English study reports — with their students,” Google wrote in a blog post. “The students can upload these and can generate an Audio Overview of key insights in their preferred language.”

The new languages that Google is supporting are Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish (European, Latin American, Mexico), Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Filipino, French (European), French (Canada), Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Croatian, Haitian Creole, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, and Japanese, the company emailed TechCrunch.

Javanese, Georgian, Kannada, Korean, Konkani, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maithili, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Burmese (Myanmar), Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norwegian (Bokmål), Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese (Traditional), and Chinese (Simplified).