Getting Started
- Visit notebooklm.google.com and sign in with your Google account.
- Create a new notebook and upload sources — PDFs, Google Docs, web links, YouTube videos, or text files.
- Ask questions about your uploaded content and NotebookLM will answer with citations to specific sources.
- Generate an Audio Overview to create a podcast-style discussion of your documents with AI hosts.
Key Features
- Audio Overview generates engaging podcast-style conversations with two AI hosts discussing your uploaded content.
- Source-grounded answers responds only based on your uploaded documents, reducing hallucination and ensuring accuracy.
- Multi-format sources accepts PDFs, Google Docs, Slides, web URLs, YouTube videos, and plain text.
- Inline citations every answer includes clickable references to the specific source passages used.
- Study guides and FAQs automatically generates study materials, summaries, and frequently asked questions from your content.
- Completely free available at no cost with a Google account, including Audio Overview generation.
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