Utilizing Google’s NotebookLM to Create Movies From Non-Copyrighted Materials

Do you wish to skip the e book and watch the film model? Because of Google’s NotebookLM, you possibly can.

I used the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Digital Biometric Transmission Specification (EBTS) for this train.

What do you have to NOT add to NotebookLM?

However there’s two issues I must say in regards to the EBTS:

First, the EBTS is a public doc and never a high secret doc. You possibly can obtain the EBTS your self from the https://fbibiospecs.fbi.gov/ebts-1/approved-ebts-1 URL. For my take a look at I used model 11.3 of the EBTS from earlier this yr.
Second, the EBTS is a public area doc and isn’t copyrighted. That is one thing I would like to emphasise. For those who’re going to take {a magazine} article and make a film out of it, the copyright holder could have one thing to say about that.

Each factors are essential. If you wish to add your employer’s confidential report into NotebookLM for evaluation…effectively, you in all probability shouldn’t. However the public, non-copyrighted EBTS is protected for this train.

Importing the EBTS to NotebookLM

So I uploaded the EBTS into NotebookLM, and as anticipated, I obtained a brief textual content sumnmary of the doc.

“This doc outlines the technical specs for the digital change of biometric and biographic info between varied regulation enforcement companies and the FBI’s Legal Justice Info Providers (CJIS) Subsequent Technology Identification (NGI) System. It particulars the Transaction Offense Sorts (TOTs), that are the standardized requests and responses used for companies reminiscent of identification, verification, investigation, and knowledge administration. Moreover, the textual content specifies the exact knowledge fields, codecs, and codes required for the submission and retrieval of various biometric knowledge, together with fingerprints, palm prints, facial photos, and iris scans, whereas additionally setting forth picture high quality specs for scanner and printer certification.”

Now I may proceed to question NotebookLM in regards to the doc, however I selected to request a video overview as a substitute. This characteristic was launched just a few months in the past, however I missed it.

“Video Overviews remodel the sources in your pocket book right into a video of AI-narrated slides, pulling photos, diagrams, quotes, and numbers out of your paperwork. They distill advanced info into clear, digestible content material, offering a complete and interesting visible deep dive of your materials.”

So I launched the video overview creation characteristic, and waited. As I waited, I mused upon the time it will take me to create this video manually, and I additionally mused on the standard LLM warning that the outcome could comprise inaccuracies.

I didn’t have to attend that lengthy, possibly quarter-hour, and Google delivered this 7-minute video.

Contained in the FBI’s EBTS. Created by Google NotebookLM primarily based upon EBTS Model 11.3.

Not too unhealthy…particularly contemplating that the video was created primarily based upon a single supply. Think about if I had offered a number of sources, reminiscent of an previous model of the Digital Fingerprint Transmission Specification (EFTS); then the video could have lined the evolution of the usual.

Oh, and I additionally created a 12-minute audio model, which NotebookLM constructions as a two-host podcast. That is much like the podcast I generated in late 2024 about…me.

In an atmosphere the place many individuals like to observe or hear slightly than learn, this helps present a fast overview. However you continue to should dive into the doc and skim it to actually perceive it.