{"id":3778,"date":"2025-01-14T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T03:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2025-01-14T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T03:11:53","slug":"podcast-norwich-selectboard-budget-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/podcast-norwich-selectboard-budget-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Norwich Selectboard Budget Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google&#8217;s NotebookLM has an Audio Overview tool that will generate a &#8220;deep dive&#8221; podcast from your specified sources.  I gave it my recent post <em><a href=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/a-divided-norwich-selectboard-grapples-with-budget-oversight-responsibilities\/\">A Divided Norwich Selectboard Grapples with Budget Oversight Responsibilities.<\/a><\/em> The resulting output is below. Click on play to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Norwich-Selectboard-Budget-Debate-3.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that this audio overview is not a comprehensive or objective view of a topic, but simply a reflection of my blog post. Also, inaccuracies and audio glitches can (and did) occur. Nevertheless, I found it interesting and wanted to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please let me know what you think. Helpful or waste of time? How about a deep dive into Selectboard correspondence in a meeting packet? Any other ideas, sane or zany? Comment below or contact me at norwichobserver[at]gmail.com.  And, as always, thanks for reading (and listening).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s NotebookLM has an Audio Overview tool that will generate a &#8220;deep dive&#8221; podcast from your specified sources. 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Nevertheless, I found it interesting <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/podcast-norwich-selectboard-budget-debate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Podcast: Norwich Selectboard Budget Debate<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget-town"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Podcast: Norwich Selectboard Budget Debate - Norwich Observer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/podcast-norwich-selectboard-budget-debate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Podcast: Norwich Selectboard Budget Debate - Norwich Observer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google&#8217;s NotebookLM has an Audio Overview tool that will generate a &#8220;deep dive&#8221; podcast from your specified sources. 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