Google's popular AI tool gets its own Android app - how to use NotebookLM on your phone

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Google's high-powered probe adjunct is getting its ain app, and Android users are getting a archetypal look.

NotebookLM, which debuted past year, is simply a escaped AI probe adjunct (running connected Gemini 2.0's multimodal knowing capabilities) that helps you amended recognize immoderate topic. You tin springiness it a fig of information sources, including PDF files, links to articles, YouTube video links, and Google Docs oregon Slides.

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Offering a fewer usage examples, Google says you tin bash things like: 

  • Upload lecture recordings, textbook chapters, and probe papers to interruption down analyzable concepts into elemental terms.
  • Upload your ain probe to make a polished presumption outline implicit with cardinal talking points and supporting evidence.
  • Upload brainstorming notes, marketplace probe data, and rival probe info to place existent trends, find caller merchandise ideas, and observe hidden opportunities.

When it archetypal launched, the instrumentality was exclusive to browsers, but Google has present released it arsenic a standalone Android app. The Apple app store listing shows a merchandise day of May 20, but the app is available for download present for Android. 

Here's however the instrumentality works.

To start, you'll unfastened up a caller notebook and adhd your files, links, and documents. Once NotebookLM has your information, you'll get a summary backmost that takes accusation from each of your sources. Everything successful the summary is cited, truthful you tin spot wherever the accusation came from.

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You tin past instrumentality that summary and person it presented successful the benignant that helps you larn champion -- a written summary, an audio summary, oregon adjacent a fake podcast session wherever you perceive 2 hosts banter backmost and distant astir your topic. You tin adjacent interrupt to inquire questions oregon instrumentality the speech successful a caller direction, similar you're a podcast impermanent determination with them. There is simply a few-second hold portion the hosts admit you and portion your question is answered, truthful it's not precisely smooth, but erstwhile I tried this diagnostic retired for myself, it was beauteous fun. 

Google does pass that NotebookLM isn't ever going to beryllium correct. 

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