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Google's 2024 announcement says that when you add audio recordings to NotebookLM, it can search across the transcribed conversations to find specific information.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“adding audio recordings and having NotebookLM search across the transcribed conversations to locate specific information”
NotebookLM adds audio and YouTube support, plus easier sharing of Audio Overviews, Raiza Martin, Google Blog, 2024, New source types section.
Open the original- What it measures
- Google's September 2024 post introduced audio files and YouTube URLs as NotebookLM sources. The example it gives is a team project in which audio recordings are searched for specific points, rather than listened to in full.
- What it does not show
- This describes a 2024 launch and the use Google suggested for it. The post does not describe a transcript file you can export, and it gives no accuracy figures for the transcripts.