The amazing fake podcast generator

The above podcast was generated using Google’s new NotebookLM, and inspired by my feeding the LM the original “Beetlejuice” script, obtained via Moviepedia. Saved with Google Docs, the pdf source material came to 50 pages. From that, a ten-minute podcast came to life! The two professional-sounding hosts speaking in natural language are entirely synthetic 😮. […]

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Assembly Ai for speech diarisation

I’ve begun taking advantage of the speaker identification features of Assembly AI’s transcript generation capabilities for use in making my podtube shows readable, not just listenable. YouTube’s own transcripts are useful enough for Ctrl-F purposes but are otherwise insufficient. Assembly AI detects the number of speakers, and gives them “A,” “B,” “C”…designations. (It’s solidly reliable […]

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