A dataset of AI-generated podcasts created using NotebookLM

2025/05/29 by Jill Walker Rettberg · 1 voice

paper · doi:10.18710/rntf9h

Abstract

Audio files and transcripts of AI-generated podcasts created using Google's NotebookLM. Four podcasts were created by uploading specific PDFs. Twenty podcasts were generated by uploading an empty PDF file to NotebookLM. The podcasts were downloaded and then transcribed using Otter.ai's automated speaker identification, with subsequent human tidying.

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