Open Notebook Brings Community-Built Podcast Generation to Rival Google's NotebookLM

Open Notebook, a free open-source alternative to Google's NotebookLM, lets developers and researchers generate customizable AI podcasts directly from PDFs, web articles, and research documents—with full control over speaker personalities, AI models, and privacy. The project, built by the open-source community and available under an MIT license, has gained significant traction among users frustrated by NotebookLM's limited customization and cloud-dependent architecture.