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Google is expanding Gemini integration inside its Workspace suite and has introduced a few new tips for its underrated NotebookLM device. The primary in line is the power to create structured tables in Google Sheets with textual content prompts.
Up to now, all tables created by the AI had been served in plain textual content with solely daring highlights for the headers. For sure, they seemed drab and boring, missing any character in any respect. There was no textual content formatting or stylistic edits to the cell contents.
Now, Google has up to date the “Create a desk” preset within the Gemini sidebar in Sheets. On tapping it, customers can conveniently substitute the core enter phrases and get a structured desk with colourful highlights, dropdown choices, and shaded cells in a couple of seconds.
In keeping with Google, the power can be obtainable to “Workspace clients with Gemini Enterprise, Enterprise, Schooling, Schooling Premium add-ons and customers with the Google One AI Premium subscription.”
It appears the rollout is concentrated on enterprise and enterprise clients first. Presently, these with entry to Gemini Advanced courtesy of a Google One AI Premium subscription could not but have the ability to create structured tables in Google Sheets.
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The extra spectacular set of updates has been reserved for NotebookLM, the AI-powered note-taking app that additionally doubles as a analysis assistant. It may now analyze YouTube movies utilizing a easy URL copy-paste and break down the contents in whichever type you’d wish to view them.
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You possibly can additional ask follow-up questions primarily based on the topic-based breakdown supplied by NotebookLM, full with clickable hyperlinks to the precise level within the video. After attempting it on a couple of movies of various durations, it appears to work flawlessly, even selecting up particulars from the comparatively shorter chapters in a YouTube video.
One other cool characteristic that can be immensely handy for journalists, researchers, and college students is the power to look throughout an audio file’s transcription for particular data.
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Moreover, NotebookLM has additionally gained the power to rework audio recordings, handwritten notes, and lecture slides into examine guides. Lastly, we now have a sharing replace for Audio Overviews, that are primarily podcast-style audio variations of user-uploaded textual content information like PDFs.
Up till now, you could possibly solely generate these overviews with a single click on. Now, they can be shared instantly utilizing a customized URL. For people looking for extra versatility, they’ll additionally import Docs, Slides, and web site hyperlinks, or just copy-paste textual content and get the evaluation executed by the underlying Gemini 1.5 mannequin.
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