ElevenLabs Introduces GenFM, its Own Version of NotebookLM

Software company ElevenLabs has expanded its ElevenReader app with GenFM, a feature that converts documents into personalised AI-generated podcasts. GenFM transforms PDFs, articles, ebooks, and documents into audio content with AI-driven co-hosts. 

The feature allows for quick audio generation across 32 languages, supporting diverse use cases like commuting, studying, language learning, and multitasking, by transforming text into engaging, spoken-word content with adaptive summaries and AI-generated narration.

Initially available on iOS, the feature builds on the ElevenReader app, which was launched earlier this year. 

ElevenLabs’ Expansion into India 

ElevenLabs is expanding its global presence, now supporting users worldwide with a team of over 100 members from 29 countries. The company is experiencing rapid growth, including the expansion of its hubs in London and New York. 

Moreover, ElevenLabs is making strategic investments in India. It has appointed local leadership and is building a dedicated team to improve its service to Indian customers, users, and partners. This expansion will focus on localising technology, enhancing support for Indic languages, and growing the Voice Library.

Rise of AI Podcasts 

Similarly, PlayAI has launched PlayDialog beta, its most advanced AI speech model. This model uses full conversational context to create more natural and expressive speech. It adjusts prosody, intonation, emotion, and pacing, making it ideal for voice dubbing, synthetic podcasts, and customer interactions. 

Alongside this, PlayAI introduced PlayNote, a tool that generates podcasts, narrations, and stories from various media types like PDFs, text, and videos. PlayNote is powered by PlayDialog’s realistic speech and is available via API for large-scale content creation.

Play AI offers API access for custom app development, with 16 voice options to choose from, along with a starter app to help users get started quickly and easily.

Even Meta released an open-source equivalent of NotebookLM, called NotebookLlama. The project is built on Meta’s Llama models. Like NotebookLM, it generates conversational, podcast-style summaries from uploaded text files.

More Updates to NotebookLM

NotebookLM, built on Google’s Gemini 1.5 model, is known for its AI content generation and realistic voice models. The tool took over the internet for its use cases. 
Last week, Google launched new features to improve research and learning. Using Gemini 1.5, users can upload PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs, and Google Slides for summarisation and topic connections. The tool provides personalised insights with clear citations for direct quotes. The new Audio Overview feature also turns sources into ‘Deep Dive’ discussions for learning on the move.