run-llama/notebookllama

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1967 stars · 248 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

NotebookLlaMa is an open-source, Python-based alternative to Google's NotebookLM, backed by LlamaCloud for document ingestion and retrieval. It lets users upload documents, query them with LLM-powered agents, and generate audio overviews/podcast-style summaries using ElevenLabs text-to-speech.

Use cases

• open-source alternative to NotebookLM
• generate podcast-style audio summaries from PDFs
• chat with my documents using LLMs
• build a RAG pipeline over research papers
• turn documents into audio overviews
• query PDFs with a LlamaCloud-backed agent

When to choose

• you want a self-hostable, open-source NotebookLM replacement
• you already use LlamaCloud and want document RAG with audio output
• you need customizable agents for document extraction and Q&A

When to avoid

• you want a fully free solution with no paid API keys (requires OpenAI, ElevenLabs, LlamaCloud)
• you need a polished GUI web app rather than scripts and CLI setup
• you want to avoid cloud dependency for document indexing

Facets

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rag llm-inference tts speech-recognition nlp chatbot artificial-intelligence large-language-models pdf python cross-platform cli notebooklm-alternative llamacloud podcast-generation audio-overviews document-qa openai elevenlabs retrieval-augmented-generation audio natural-language-processing

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