NotebookLM is transforming the Business into an inclusive and multi-audio one, allowing all users to interact with AI-powered users

Google increasing the chances of his famous business NotebookLM app, now called NotebookLM Plus, aimed at businesses, groups and individuals who rely on the app’s research tools.

The company also rebranded its podcast feature as Audio Overview, which allows users to interact with AI hosts and ask questions out loud.

A research tool, which allows people to collect information in a “notebook” and ask questions and answers from the source, was launched in July last year in advance. It was known and it was available in December. Originally built with Gemini 1.5, NotebookLM has been updated with an experimental version of Google 2.0 Flash, Google said.

After the Google team saw a lot of use cases for NotebookLM – including many business applications – the company introduced NotebookLM Plus for businesses, groups and individuals who use the program the most. NotebookLM Plus will contain five audio notes, notes and sources for each copy.

Premium users can also change the style and tone of posts, share posts with team members, and view usage analytics. Google said it also added privacy and security features.

NotebookLM Plus is available through Google Workspace or Google Agentspace. Next year, NotebookLM Plus will be included in Google One AI Premium subscriptions.

Google announced what it was called at the time NotebookLM Business in October as a pilot program to use business innovation in the application.

Voice communication

Audio Guides, where users can create audio conversations based on book content, it came out in September and became a hit immediately. The podcast-y format of the audio provided a way to help people digest complex information in a conversation between two people and it became very popular.

The tool usually consists of two AI-generated hosts discussing the content of books; Now, NotebookLM users can interrupt and ask questions using their voice to get information or lead a conversation. Users can create a new Audio Show, click the “interactive” button and then click “join” and listen, and the AI ​​hosts will call the user to ask their question.

Conversations with AI Overviews groups will be available on new Audio previews, not on existing ones.

Google warned in a blog post that the Audio Overview interview is still experimental, and “hosts may pause before responding or (may) sometimes display errors.”

Former NotebookLM CEO Raiza Martin told VentureBeat that Google will activate more controls and interaction with Audio Overview.

New features

Google also updated NotebookLM to help users “better manage content and ask AI questions about its source.”

The new view brings up three panels: a basic group of all documents or files uploaded to NotebookLM; Chat group to access the Gemini chat box to search for data sources; and the Studio team for creating study guides, short articles and Audio Guides.

“From the beginning, we wanted NotebookLM to be a tool that would help you go from asking questions to reading your sources to drawing your thoughts. Today, we are introducing a new design that makes it easy to switch between these different activities in one way,” Google said in a blog post.

Corporate interest

Since its inception, NotebookLM has been used in a wide variety of applications, even for businesses. Others have claimed and “CRM killer.”

Users have posted on social media about the different ways they have been using NotebookLM. Sam Lessin, former vice president of marketing at Meta and senior partner at Slow Ventures, he said on X that his company they use NotebookLM instead of CRM.

Martin previously told VentureBeat that his team has seen more users begin to share documents with others, making certain documents into a repository for information related to company policies or project research.