Google launched the standalone app for NotebookLM on each Android and iOS on Monday. Earlier this month, the Mountain View-based tech big listed the app on each Google Play and the App Retailer and allowed customers to pre-register for it. Practically three weeks later, the app is now out there on each working programs and carries a number of of the core options of the web site model. Whereas there are some limitations in including sources to a pocket book, the corporate has added the Audio Overviews function to the app.

NotebookLM App Lets Customers Obtain Audio Overviews

These customers who had pre-registered for the NotebookLM app on Android and iOS acquired a message on Monday highlighting that the app was out there and was being put in on their machine. Google additionally introduced the launch of the app in a blog post, stating that the app’s first iteration consists of most of the platform’s core options, and different options shall be added within the coming months.

The house web page of the NotebookLM app shows the list of notebooks. Based mostly on the sources added, the app routinely assigns an emoji to the pocket book, and customers also can rename it. At present, customers can add PDFs, web site URLs, YouTube hyperlinks, and copied textual content. A number of the choices out there on the web site, equivalent to audio recordsdata, markdown textual content, Google Docs, and Slides, usually are not out there on the app right now.

Nonetheless, the preferred function of the platform — Audio Overviews — is obtainable within the app. After getting into a pocket book, customers can faucet on the Studio possibility on the underside proper to generate a man-made intelligence (AI) audio dialogue based mostly on the sources. Devices 360 employees members had been capable of take a look at the function, and it takes a few minutes to generate an audio file.

Usually, taking part in an Audio Overview requires energetic Web connectivity, but when customers obtain the file, they’ll additionally take heed to it offline. Moreover, the interactive function that lets customers “be part of” the audio dialogue to ask a query to the AI hosts can be out there on the app.

Different notable options embrace subject summarisation and chatting with the AI to ask questions in regards to the subject. At present, options equivalent to examine information technology and MindMap usually are not out there on the app.

Whereas the NotebookLM app is free to make use of, there’s a paid subscription that provides entry to extra notebooks, sources per pocket book, and Audio Overviews. Entry to NotebookLM Plus is presently tied to the Google One AI Premium subscription that prices Rs. 1,950 per 30 days.