NotebookLM Major Update! Video Summaries in 80 Languages & a Presentation Experience That Will Blow Your Mind

Google’s AI note-taking tool, NotebookLM, has recently received a major update. The Video Overviews feature is no longer limited to English and now supports up to 80 languages, significantly enhancing its ability to process cross-lingual video and audio content. At the same time, Audio Overviews have also become more flexible. Let’s take a look at the highlights of this update and how it’s changing the way we learn and work.

Have you ever wished you could have an AI quickly digest a foreign language video for you and directly generate a presentation with clear key points? In the past, this might have been a distant dream, but now, Google’s AI research and writing assistant, NotebookLM, is making it a reality.

Recently, NotebookLM underwent a very significant upgrade, especially in its features for processing video and audio content, which can be said to solve many people’s pain points.

No Longer English-Only! A Great Leap Forward for Multilingual Video Summaries

In the past, NotebookLM’s “Video Overviews” feature, while powerful, only supported English content. This was always a bit of a regret for users who needed to process information in multiple languages.

The good news is that this limitation is now a thing of the past! NotebookLM has officially expanded the support for Video Overviews to 80 languages. This means that whether you’re watching a tutorial, lecture, or interview in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, or French, NotebookLM can easily analyze, summarize, and generate structured notes for you.

This update is not just about increasing the number of languages; it represents a revolution in the way we acquire knowledge. For students, researchers, or professionals working across borders, language is no longer a barrier to absorbing new information. You can grasp the latest information from around the globe much faster, greatly improving learning and work efficiency.

Audio Summaries Are Also More Considerate, with Lengths You Can Decide

It’s not just the video features; the “Audio Overviews” have also received a practical upgrade.

NotebookLM has added flexibility in choosing the length of the generated summary in its audio summarization feature. Users can now freely switch between a “short” and “default” version of the summary based on their needs.

What does this mean? For example, if you just want a quick review of the key points from a meeting recording, the “short” summary can give you the core conclusions in seconds. But if you need to write detailed minutes for that meeting, the “default” version can provide a more complete and richer context. This kind of customization makes the tool much more adaptable to real-world work scenarios.

Why should you try it? The presentations it generates are truly different.

At this point, you might think this is just another AI summarization tool. But the most amazing thing about NotebookLM’s Video Overviews is the style of the presentations (PPTs) it generates.

Many tools on the market generate presentations that are often just a rigid pile of text and images on a page, looking like a Word document that has been directly copied and pasted, with no sense of design and quite difficult to read.

But NotebookLM takes a completely different approach. It adopts a “speech-first, content-assisted” design philosophy.

What does this mean? Let me explain:

• Speech-first: Each page of the presentation is like a cue card for the speaker, with concise and powerful text that presents only the most critical points or thought-provoking questions.
• Content-assisted: The focus of the screen is left to visual elements or key data, with text playing only a supporting role. This guides the audience to listen attentively to the speaker, rather than looking down and reading a lot of text on the slides.

This design philosophy brings presentations back to their most original and important function: communication. It’s not a detailed document, but a visual tool to help you convey ideas and guide your audience’s thinking. If you’re tired of those presentations that are crammed with content and make you want to sleep, I strongly recommend you experience the results generated by NotebookLM for yourself. It will likely completely change your perception of AI-generated presentations.

Conclusion: Not Just a Note-Taker, But Your Intelligent Research Partner

In summary, this NotebookLM update is not just an addition of features, but a huge leap in practicality. Video summaries supporting 80 languages break down the language barriers of information, while the selectable-length audio summaries provide more flexibility.

More importantly, its unique presentation generation philosophy shows us how AI can truly become a powerful partner in assisting thinking and communication. If you haven’t tried NotebookLM yet, now is definitely the best time. Go upload a video or audio file and experience the convenience and surprises it brings for yourself!