How I Developed a NotebookLM Clone?

Author(s): Vatsal Saglani

Originally published on Towards AI.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Multispeaker Podcasts Using GPT-4o and ElevenLabs

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When Google released NotebookLM, I was quite fascinated by its ability to transform documents into a podcast that sounded highly real. The idea of having a system that could not only analyze but also present content in an engaging manner in the form of a discussion caught my attention. I wanted to create something similar myself — something that could take a PDF, convert it into a short podcast (around 3 minutes), and make it feel like a conversation between multiple speakers at least 2 and at most 5.

So, I got to work, and the following is the result of an afternoon’s effort: a NotebookLM clone built using OpenAI GPT-4o and ElevenLab’s Text-to-Speech model. In this blog, we’ll walk through how we can develop a PDF2Pod — a tool that can turn a PDF into a short podcast where multiple speakers are discussing one particular topic in turns.

For the folks who are living under a rock, NotebookLM is a tool developed by Google that aims to make understanding and navigating complex information easier. It leverages advanced AI and LLM capabilities to turn uploaded documents, slides, charts,… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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