Creating a podcast style overview of your family history

paumurp

Might be of interest to anyone that has written up their family history research into a document to share with family members.

NotebookLM the Google AI tool has an audio overview that essentially turns the document into an audio 'deep dive' in the style of a 2 way discussion between a man and woman in a sort of podcast style. Just upload, get a summary overview and then click on audio overview

I've used it on 2 docs with mixed results, but allowing for mispronunciation, struggles with place names etc it works quite well and offers an alternative way of sharing with family who you know won't read a long document but might listen to a podcast. I had a 150+ page doc produce a 23 minute audio file another merited 35 mins. The 35 min had more 'ordinary' stories than the shorter file, but was the better listen in my opinion.

pinkypinky

Have to admit I'd be really unlikely to listen to anything produced by AI but it might work for some people.

paumurp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123614580#Comment_123614580

Generally speaking I'd agree, but this is just summarizing work already done, (and done by me in my examples) for the purposes of sharing with people I know wouldn't read 150 + pages. It just presents the information in the style of a quite interesting discussion. Certainly not for everyone of course, but for others better than the written word