Google's NotebookLM Can Help You Dive Deeper Into YouTube Videos 14
The Verge's Emma Roth reports: NotebookLM, Google's AI note-taking app, can now summarize and help you dig deeper into YouTube videos. The new capability works by analyzing the text in a YouTube video's transcript, including autogenerated ones. Once you add a YouTube link to NotebookLM, it will use AI to provide a brief summary of key topics discussed in the transcript. You can then click on these topics to get more detailed information as well as ask questions. (If you're struggling to come up with something to ask, NotebookLM will suggest some questions.)
After clicking on some of the topics, I found that NotebookLM backs up the information provided in its chat window with a citation that links you directly to the point in the transcript where it's mentioned. You can also create an Audio Overview based on the content, which is a podcast-style discussion hosted by AI. I found that the feature worked on most of the videos I tried, except for ones published within the past two days or so. [...] In addition to adding support for YouTube videos, Google announced that NotebookLM now supports audio recordings as well, allowing you to search transcribed conversations for certain information and create study guides.
After clicking on some of the topics, I found that NotebookLM backs up the information provided in its chat window with a citation that links you directly to the point in the transcript where it's mentioned. You can also create an Audio Overview based on the content, which is a podcast-style discussion hosted by AI. I found that the feature worked on most of the videos I tried, except for ones published within the past two days or so. [...] In addition to adding support for YouTube videos, Google announced that NotebookLM now supports audio recordings as well, allowing you to search transcribed conversations for certain information and create study guides.
People watch videos on YouTube? (Score:2)
YT has become essentially unwatchable, even with an ad blocker. It's become what cable television became, a few minutes of content surrounded by ads.
Re: (Score:1)
The trick seems to be to rotate ad blocker brands to stay ahead of Google's detectors.
youtube search list (Score:2)
possible search filters - google using AI to detect speech patterns of common videos
"-exclude-celebrity-news-and-gossip" to filter all that out
"-exclude-top-x-lists"
"-exclude-duplicates-and-near-duplicates"
"-exclude-videos-with-speech-patterns-of-teenagers"
"-exclude-videos-of-mainstream-media"
"-exclude-videos-of-senators-and-congress"
"-exclude-videos-of-think-tanks"
"-exclude-clickbait-word-videos""
"-exclude-gossipy-southern-california-speech"
and more
Re: (Score:2)
An ad-blocker like uBlock Origin for the pre-roll ads.
SponsorBlock for the in-video ads, skips over them automatically. It can also skip over other crap like intros and recaps.
DeArrow to replace video title and thumbnail clickbait with descriptive ones.
There is a lot of good content on YouTube, but you need to put some effort into finding it. Once you subscribe to some good channels it gets better.
Re: (Score:2)
I just use what comes preconfigured with Vivaldi. Sometimes I see ads for a day or two until they fix it. But there is hardly any worthwhile content left on YouTube anyways.
Can I use this in boring meetings? (Score:1)
...I could then take a nap and just read the summary after.
(For remote meetings I'd just post an avatar of myself, at work I'd use those new fake-eye glasses. Hopefully the bot zaps me if I start snoring.)
Podcast (Score:2)
Oh boy (Score:3)
So it comes full circle? (Score:2)
Google pushed the pivot to video, so the 30 seconds of reading I needed to answer my question became a 10 minute YouTube (stuffed with ads). Now thanks to AI they've ... created a way to turn the video back into the 30 seconds of reading I originally asked for?
Very clever, Google. The web is surely better for this. /s
Re: (Score:1)
That was my intended use for it. However it rejected my second attempt to import a youtube video (that indeed had a transcript), saying, "This video cannot be imported. Transcript not available."
Can anyone else get it working?