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0 pointsjolan11mo ago0 comments

I think he meant the audio output itself sounds like an infomercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr4BP4V1R8

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Correct, yes.

That NotebookLM podcast was like the most unpleasant way I can imagine to consume content. Reading transcripts of live talks is already pretty annoying because it's less concise than the written word. Having it re-expanded by robot-voice back to audio to be read to me just makes it even more unpleasant.

Also sort of perverse we are going audio->transcript->fake audio. "YC has said the official video will take a few weeks to release," - I mean shouldn't one of the 100 AI startups solve this for them?

Anyway, maybe it's just me.. I'm the kind of guy that got a cynical chuckle at the airport the other week when I saw a "magazine of audio books".

jasonjmcghee11mo ago

I have the same perspective - to such a degree that any time I see someone post a notebooklm I wonder if it's paid advertising. Every time I've tried it on something like a whitepaper etc. it just makes stuff up or says things that are kind of worthless. Reminds me of ChatGPT 3.5 in terms of quality of the presented content.

The voices sounded REALLY good the first time I used it. But then sounded exactly the same every time after that and became underwhelmed.

Velorivox11mo ago

During the early days of NotebookLM, I got it to generate this interesting look behind the scenes of how the script is made:

https://vocaroo.com/1nZBz5hdjwEh

As a bonus its hilarious in its own right.

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