Tuesday, September 9, 2025

A short video about the Coffee Sniffers (a test video summary)

... so... I thought I'd try a little experiment with NotebookLM's video overview... 

  


I created a Notebook and then gave it the text of my post answering the Coffee Sniffers question.  (From July 30, 2025) 

After pouring it in, I asked for it to make a Video Overview that would summarize my post. Here's the result:   (Link)  



This is the kind of video I've wanted to make ever since this blog began.  But as you know (and as I know all too well, having edited a LOT of videos over the years), making one of these video shorts takes a long, long time.  

For those of you who've read the post, how does this compare with the text experience?  Good?  Better?  Less satisfying?  Did you take away anything new or more interesting from the video version?  

I'm looking for feedback here.  If you like it, I'll do more in future posts (and I'll talk about how much work this was--I admit to editing the raw video output from NotebookLM).  

Let me know in the comments!  


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3 comments:

  1. Ramon GonzalezSeptember 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM

    Hello Dr Russell!

    I like the video a lot. It's helpful. It's different and always reading your answer will be better because it has links, your comments and it is like an extended version.

    I like the Lessons from the search. And while watching, I was thinking maybe you can add all the lessons? And they are there. Not all but some.

    I'm glad you added the link to the Challenge because with the video I'm sure people will want to read more.

    I learned about the Reichsthaler that I didn't notice when reading the Answer version

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsthaler

    I'd love that the video voice was yours. Who knows maybe in the future AI will allow that.

    AI related. Yesterday I read that now you can upload audio files to Gemini. That can also be done on Notebooklm?

    What can be achieved with audio files other than transcript? Can we use it to identify birds or animals? With that audio can ask to get the audio in another language?

    I hope you do more like this one. And maybe more 1MM like you did in the past?

    Thanks Dr. Russell

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    1. Dan RussellSeptember 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM

      Thanks for the positive comment! I agree, the voice *sounds* like me, but it's actually the default voice. It's just an accident that it sounds like my voice.

      Like you, I picked up something by listening to the video as well. Even though I WROTE the thing, somehow, hearing it makes different things more prominent. (And probably, others move to the background.)

      Glad you enjoyed it.

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  2. Ramon GonzalezSeptember 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM

    After watching the video and wanting to know more about the fines

    [Reichsthaler Kaffeeriecher] and then translate to understand the results

    Aus der Geschichte Warendorfs:
    Als in Warendorf der Kaffeegenuss verboten war
    von Wolfgang Reisner (1. 3. 2022)

    https://www.heimatvereinwarendorf.de/geschichte/kaffeegenuss%20verboten%20-%2027-2-22.php

    For some reason I couldn't translate to English. When I clicked translate it was translated to Spanish but I wanted to read it on English too.

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