Google's NotebookLM artificial intelligence tool has just been updated with a series of new features, allowing users to turn e-books or novels into AI-led podcasts, visual infographics and multimedia summaries.
According to the official announcement on social network X, NotebookLM now supports uploading EPUB files (ePub), one of the most popular e-book formats today.
Thanks to its good adaptability to many screen sizes and small file sizes, EPUB is widely used in e-book reading platforms.
Compared to traditional PDF format, EPUB has the advantage of supporting flexible content and interactive elements.
With the new update, users can directly upload EPUB books to NotebookLM to create various types of content such as video summaries, presentations, quick summaries or audio compilations.
One of the most notable features is Audio Overview, which allows turning book content into podcasts performed by two AI hosts.
The system will analyze the content and create a conversation between the two hosts to explain the main points of the book.
Users can even participate in this exchange by asking questions or asking to clarify details in the content.
As a result, people who do not have much time to read e-books can still access content in the form of podcasts or quick summaries.
This feature is especially useful for students, researchers or people who regularly have to process large volumes of documents.
NotebookLM is considered one of the more reliable AI applications compared to many conventional chatbots.
This tool allows users to clearly specify the source of documents for the system to analyze, thereby limiting the situation of AI providing false information.
Thanks to this mechanism, NotebookLM is increasingly used by students and experts to learn about complex topics.
In addition to podcasts and content summaries, the new update also adds the ability to create custom infographics.
Users can choose up to 10 different design styles such as sketch, kawaii, professional, science, anime, clay, editing, guide, bento or brick net.
In addition, NotebookLM allows you to choose many different layouts such as horizontal, vertical or square, and also customize the level of information of infographics in three levels: short, standard and detailed.
Users can also describe the color style, layout or focus of content for AI to create infographics according to requirements.
With these new features, NotebookLM is becoming a versatile AI tool to help users turn text documents into more visual and accessible content.
