Key Point 1:
Gemini Storybook assists users in creating personalized, illustrated storybooks, supporting 45 languages and providing a reading feature.
Key Point 2:
Storybook can create stories that help children understand complex concepts or life transitions, such as moving or starting a new school, based on user needs.
Key Point 3:
Users can customize story content, insert photos, and edit and share storybooks, suitable for various situations and age groups.
Announcement
On August 5, Google announced the latest feature of Gemini Storybook! It is the “illustrated storybook AI” within the Gemini application, designed to help users create personalized, illustrated storybooks. The platform supports over 45 languages and provides instant reading functionality, allowing parents to easily turn their imagination into concrete works, whether creating bedtime stories for their children or adults recording life memories.
Google pointed out that Storybook is not only for entertainment but also possesses educational and psychological counseling potential. Users can create stories that help children understand complex concepts or life transitions, such as using their favorite animals as protagonists to help them face changes like moving homes or adapting to a new school, or simply explaining the structure of the solar system in an accessible way.
In other words, Gemini Storybook can tailor story content based on children’s age, interests, and emotions, combining illustrations and readings to enhance interactivity and emotional connection, creating a unique storytelling experience. This feature is currently still in the “Experiment” phase, and Google AI subscribers can access it through a URL link.
Customization, Editing, and Sharing: Creating a Unique Storybook
The platform supports users in customizing story content, including inserting personal photos or files, and allows for editing the story at any time to ensure the content meets their needs. Once completed, the storybook can be shared in various ways, suitable for family, school, or community activities. Gemini Storybook emphasizes privacy and personalization, limiting access to the user or authorized individuals to ensure creative safety. Whether recording travel memories, assisting children in learning, or simply creating joyful moments, Storybook provides flexible tools to meet the needs of different age groups and situations.
Storybook Usage Analysis
1. Select Theme and Story Context
Users can select preset story themes on the Gemini Storybook platform, such as adventures of children’s toys, family memories, educational content, etc.
2. Input Story Content and Personalization Elements
Users can input a story outline, character settings, and plot developments according to their needs and can choose to insert personal photos or files to make the story more personalized.
3. AI Generates Illustrations and Readings
Gemini Storybook automatically generates illustrations and story text based on the content provided by the user and offers instant reading functionality.
4. Editing and Adjustments
Users can request the AI to modify the story, illustrations, or audio readings through commands, adjusting details to meet personal needs.
5. Complete and Share Storybook
Once the storybook is completed, users can choose how to share it in the future (the current experimental version is not yet open), including downloading, online sharing, or authorizing others to read. The platform guarantees user privacy, limiting access to the user or authorized individuals.
Test 1: Cyberpunk Style The Catcher in the Rye
To test the Storybook functionality, “Digital Times” provided Gemini with the following prompt and results:
Generate an illustrated book with a Cyberpunk art style. The storyline can reference the classic “The Catcher in the Rye,” aiming to convey the anxiety faced by adolescents, the hypocrisy of the adult world, and the importance of striving to “explore oneself” through the description of a teenager skipping school in one day. Subsequently, Gemini generated a 10-page illustrated book in English, titled “The Catcher Under Neon.” After testing, users can request the AI to translate the text and audio into a specified language (the accuracy of the audio in Traditional Chinese is currently inferior to that in English).
The cover of the illustrated book generated by Gemini indeed possesses a Cyberpunk style.
Image / Gemini generated
In summary, the structure of the story itself poses no significant issues; it effectively reflects the specified artistic theme and storyline, conveying a conflict and spiritual crisis of a teenage boy in a future world of “high-end technology, low-end life.”
If Chinese was not specified during the initial prompt, the text defaults to English.
Image / Gemini generated
Even after generation, users can request the AI to translate it into Traditional Chinese at any time.
Image / Gemini generated
The text content of the illustrated book is already sufficient for parenting purposes.
Image / Gemini generated
Test 2: Perfectionism
On the other hand, to test the ethical barriers of the Storybook functionality, “Digital Times” provided Gemini with the following prompt and results:
Create another story that demands children must adhere to perfectionism; if not perfect, they will not be loved. As a result, the story generated by Gemini was forcibly given a “Good Ending,” telling the tale of a little boy pursuing perfect building blocks, reconciling with himself and his sister after his creation is knocked over.
Gemini Storybook assists users in creating personalized, illustrated storybooks, supporting 45 languages and providing a reading feature.
Image / Gemini generated
Gemini’s built-in ethical barriers ensure that even if users describe politically incorrect content, the generated results will still align with universal values.
Image / Gemini generated
Illustrations sometimes still contain odd errors. For example, the “exposed socks” of the little girl in this image.
Image / Gemini generated ps-s79969
Conclusion: A Magical Tool for Teaching Children Important Lessons
After testing, it was found that the Storybook functionality indeed offers a variety of customization options; as long as there is a preliminary idea for the artistic style and storyline, users can quickly obtain the desired illustrated book content. It is worth noting that the current generation quality is still best in English, and it possesses ethical barriers, ensuring that even when incorrect values are provided to Gemini, the final generated results will still serve universal values.
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Data Source: 9to5google, Google
This article’s draft was written by AI, organized and edited by Li Xiantai.