{"id":2779,"date":"2025-07-08T15:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/notebooklm-a-powerful-ai-tool-for-summarizing-and-querying-your-documents\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:13:34","slug":"notebooklm-a-powerful-ai-tool-for-summarizing-and-querying-your-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/notebooklm-a-powerful-ai-tool-for-summarizing-and-querying-your-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"NotebookLM: a powerful AI tool for summarizing and querying your documents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NotebookLM, the AI assistant from Google Labs, transforms your PDFs, notes, web pages, or transcribed videos into an interactive research notebook :<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Instant summaries<\/strong> and comparisons of your sources ;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Targeted responses<\/strong> with citations from the original sources to limit hallucinations;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AI-generated audio podcast<\/strong> to review your content on the go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Each notebook can contain <strong>up to 50 documents<\/strong>, which is sufficient to cover lecture notes, a research project, or a body of analysis. This performance is based on the <strong>Google Gemini language model<\/strong>, the engine behind NotebookLM, which is capable of processing <strong>large amounts of context<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The tool is <strong>free<\/strong> and has been praised by NVIDIA&#8217;s CEO as one of the most concrete and useful examples of AI applied to productivity and learning.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1024x577.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-2087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/files\/2025\/07\/image-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/files\/2025\/07\/image-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/files\/2025\/07\/image-1536x866.png 1536w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/files\/2025\/07\/image-2048x1155.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 Best practices: NotebookLM operates in the cloud; only import public documents, so <strong>no private, sensitive, or confidential documents.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/notebooklm.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Discover NotebookLM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NotebookLM is an AI-powered tool that summarizes your documents, answers your questions with source citations, and can even generate an audio podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002618,"featured_media":2100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-resources"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/iaunil\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}