Google NotebookLM has a new feature called Video Reviews, which uses artificial intelligence to create slideshows with narration. The feature is currently available in English, and Google says that support for “more languages” will be coming soon.
“You can think of them as a visual alternative to audio reviews: an AI presenter creates new visuals to help illustrate points, and also extracts images, charts, quotes, and numbers from your documents,” the blog post says. “This makes it uniquely effective for explaining data, demonstrating processes, and making abstract concepts more tangible.” Google plans to introduce “additional formats” in the future. Judging by the demo video, video reviews have convenient playback controls, such as the ability to fast forward and rewind by 10 seconds and set the playback speed.
Google is also announcing updates to the Studio tab in NotebookLM, where you can create things like audio and video reviews, tutorials, and briefing documents. The biggest change is that you’ll be able to “create and save multiple studio outputs of the same type in a single notebook,” meaning you can create multiple audio reviews using all the background information from the notebook you’re working in.
The Studio tab will also receive a visual update – it will have four tiles at the top for creating audio reviews, video reviews, mind maps, and reports, according to Google. The changes to Studio will be rolled out “over the next few weeks” to all users.
