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Thanks for sharing. Does NotebookLM covers other languages as well, for instance Urdu, arabic or Farsi?

Right now the podcasts are only in English, and (I believe) only use English sources. I'm sure this will change soon enough though.

I fed it an Italian Wikipedia entry and it generated a (relevant) podcast and summaries in English, so at least the input seem to support multiple languages even if the output is in English.

If I had come across something like this 2/3 years ago it would have looked like magic, but even now it’s quite impressive.

Edit: You can change the language following the indications in the FAQ; after that, text generation seems to be in the configured language, but the podcast is still in English.

I gave it a book in Japanese that I wrote and it generated an accurate podcast about it in English.

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