BibiGPT v4.797.0: Documents Now Play Like a Video, With AI Narration

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BibiGPT shipped another round of updates this week. The one to try first is uploading a document: drop in a PDF or a slide deck and, besides the summary, it plays page by page like a video, reads itself aloud, or gets an AI explainer that turns to the right page as it talks. You can read faster, find subtitles more easily, and get more done with what you’ve summarized.

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⚡ Read faster

Documents now play like a video

Slides, reports and e-books used to be chat attachments only. If you wanted to go page by page, or have someone walk you through them, you had to open another reader.

Where: New summary → Upload → pick a PDF / PPT / EPUB / Word / Markdown file. Open the summary: “Read aloud” is under the player, “AI explainer” is at the top right, and “All pages” is at the top left.

PDFs show the real pages; other formats show chapter cards. Timestamps in the summary become “P3” or “Chapter 2”, and clicking one turns to that page.

• Read aloud: the browser reads the current page sentence by sentence, highlights the word it’s on, and turns the page when it’s done. You can pick the voice and speed
• AI explainer: choose a voice and a style, and you get a narration track. The player turns to whichever page it’s talking about, with subtitles one sentence at a time, lit up word by word
• Explainer script: switch the subtitle tab between “Original” and “Explainer script”, and click any line to play from there
• All pages: opens a thumbnail grid; click a page to jump to it

Screenshot: BibiGPT · a 6-page demo PDF in the document player; page numbers in the summary are clickable

Supported formats: pdf, pptx, epub, docx, odt, rtf, md and txt, up to 50 MB and 300 pages per file. Each PDF or slide page counts as 1 minute, and every 1,000 words of EPUB, Word or Markdown counts as 1 page, from the same pool as audio and video. Your balance is checked before uploading, so nothing gets uploaded for nothing. The AI explainer uses credits (paid plans use the monthly allowance first) and refunds automatically if it fails.

History: full summaries in the list

After the last redesign you had to open an item, or hover over it, to see its summary. Many of you told us you used to read straight down the list.

Where: Library → Summarized → switch to “List” or “Masonry”.

In List view, the full summary (overview, highlights, questions) opens right under each title, so you can just keep scrolling, on your phone too. Masonry cards also show the full summary, sized to fit.

Screenshot: BibiGPT · the List view shows each summary in full without opening it

🔎 Find it

Subtitles: “Translate · Bilingual”

The button above the subtitles used to be called “Select subtitles”, and plenty of people couldn’t find translation.

Where: open a summary → Subtitles → “Translate · Bilingual”.

The first option is “Bilingual: original + your interface language”. Common languages are listed right there and the rest are under “More languages”. The subtitle list header now has an “Original | Bilingual | Translation” switch; if there’s no translation yet, clicking “Bilingual” starts one. Subtitle downloads follow whichever view you’re on.

Screenshot: BibiGPT · the three-way switch and the Translate · Bilingual menu above the subtitles

🛠️ Put it to work

Turn this video into…

Done reading the summary and want an article or an image carousel out of it? You used to have to go find the right spot in Create.

Where: open a summary → “Turn this video into…” at the bottom of the full summary.

There are five cards: an article, an image carousel, an illustration, a podcast (a two-host audio show) and flashcards. Each card shows roughly how many credits it takes and which plan it needs.

Screenshot: BibiGPT · the card wall under the full summary; results show up in Create

Your highlight notes can be used to create, too.

Where: Me → Create → Highlights → “Create from notes” → tick a few → “Create from selected notes”.

You can pick notes from different videos and combine them into one article or carousel draft, then keep editing it in Create. Create also has a new “New creation” button that starts from a video, a set of highlights or a collection.

Screenshot: BibiGPT · the action bar after selecting 3 highlights (thumbnails blurred)

Sort collections your way

With lots of collections, sorting only by creation date made it hard to keep a course in order.

Where: Collections → “Sort by” at the top of the folder tree.

Choose newest first, oldest first, by name, or a custom order. Drag folders to reorder them; dragging switches to custom order automatically. The sidebar follows the same order, and sorting by name puts “Lesson 2” before “Lesson 10”.

Screenshot: BibiGPT · the sort menu in Collections

Custom prompts: save vs. use once

Clicking “Save” in Custom Summary used to make that prompt your default too, so trying a new prompt replaced your old default.

Where: open a summary → “Settings” at the top → “Custom Summary”.

There are now three buttons at the bottom:

• Save: just saves it
• Save & pin as default: saves it and makes it your default summary
• Summarize this video: uses it for this video only, without changing your default

Screenshot: BibiGPT · the three buttons at the bottom of the Custom Summary dialog (prompt list blurred)

Other recent improvements

• Paid members can now hide the sidebar promo card and the group-buy entry
• The summary page lays itself out by your actual screen size: stacked on a portrait iPad or in split view, side by side on an unfolded foldable, without reloading when you rotate
• In the desktop app, cache options in the player’s ”…” menu are grouped under “Local cache”
• Web uploads that stall for 45 seconds now retry on another route automatically
• Uploads land in the collection you picked as soon as they finish

Wrap-up

This week, upload a set of slides or a report you have on hand and click “AI explainer” to hear it walk you through page by page. Then try “Turn this video into…” at the bottom of a summary.

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