- Google’s notebooklm now supports audio listings in over 50 languages
- Users can generate AI -Podcasts based on uploaded information in their preferred language
- Gemini 2.5-Pro-driven feature maintains the same relaxed, conversation style regardless of language
It looks like AI ‘Podcasters’ you create with Google’s Notebooklm has played a lot of Duolingo. The AI-generated hosts of the audio overview function can now appear in more than 50 languages. Audio overview is the laptop feature that transforms documents, videos, books and other information you give it to a audio show that hosts a few AI voices.
When you do the audio overview now, you can go to the settings and select an output language prior to generating the sound. You can also change languages on the go, generate summary to friends or students in their native language or prepare multilingual study guides without hiring a translator or tapping the often messy results of Google Translate.
The addition may not look like a big thing among other AI glasses, but it’s potentially huge. Language plays a portguard for so many things, especially technology. Now, Google can lure those who may be interested in playing with his AI toys without having to learn a whole new language.
A whole global audience of people studying, teaching, investigating or just being interested in learning new things can now better navigate a Google platform that is previously limited by English exclusivity. Teachers, for example, can upload a hodge podge of resources in different languages and generate a digestible sound overview in the language that their students are most comfortable with.
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The feature is only in beta and Google is eager to warn that there are still some problems. The voices may be stumbling and you may encounter strange or wrong translations, especially in less frequently used languages. But the synthetic personalities will still discuss your research papers or complete at home -makeover -guide and riff, summarize and notice the content; It’s just that English won’t be the only tongue they do it in.
That tone matters. One of the reasons why audio summaries clicked with users in the first place is that they don’t sound like a monotonous robot trying to teach you tax law. AI hosts crack -jokes, pauses of effect and expressing amazement in (usually) appropriate spots.
There is something deeply satisfying about hearing your own research on ancient Rome explained to you in Latin. It definitely makes to learn the language to feel more exciting. Amo Audire Podcasts Novis Linguis.
