The Future of Podcasting: Instantly Create Episodes from Ideas Using AI

Google’s Free NotebookLM tool will create a podcast show on any topic

John Iovine
2 min readOct 5, 2024

The male and female host voices are artificial, but you would be hard-pressed to distinguish them from natural voices. The AI-generated voices use causal expressions, chat, banter, and even interrupt themselves in an engaging dialog as they discuss any topic the user has entered.

The podcasting feature is called Audio Overview, which is part of the NotebookLM. The podcasts it generates are named Deep Dive.

Test Drive

I was blown away by the depth and clarity of the podcast I generated in just a few minutes.

You can access NotebookLM, see the link below, and createa new notebook. You can add a variety of information sources to the notebook: text, PDF files, YouTube links, and MP3 files.

After adding content, a “Notebook Guide” pop-up will appear. The pop-up will contain a summary of the information and suggested…

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John Iovine
John Iovine

Written by John Iovine

Science writer, thinker, self-experimenter, focusing on personal development and health — www.john-iovine.com

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