Listen to article summaries

It’s time to get real. Short-form content like TikToks, Reels, and YouTube Shorts have slowly but surely narrowed our attention spans. If you haven’t fast-forwarded a movie scene recently or got bored of a 10-minute video in the first two, congrats. You’re likely consuming a healthy amount of catchy, bite-sized content. For the rest of us, some tools can help.

Upword, for instance, takes long-form content like articles and webpages, uses AI to summarize and extract key ideas, and lets you annotate, edit, share, and listen to these. When asked about how the summarizing process works, the maker shared that “the model learns from real people who summarized documents and huge amounts of training data.” You can also contribute to this by leaving feedback for each AI-generated note.

Once a written summary of your document has been created, you can add comments to it, edit with your annotations, and highlight it. A text-to-speech AI will also read the content out loud for you, which sounds strangely human. Upword comes with a Chrome extension that you can use to add links to your library.

This reminded us of a recently launched tool from Typeform. Relayed turns Zoom meetings (audio) into written summaries. In short, it’s like Upword in reverse. You can use it to communicate with your team asynchronously and conduct user interviews and sales outreach.

How do you ensure you’re getting the most out of the knowledge you consume?

• We’re seeing more and more makers working on neural networks generating images from text. Photosonic AI is the latest to launch, and Neural Studio lets you remove objects from the generated images.

• Avataar helps eCommerce stores increase sales through interactive Augmented Reality. Shoppers can use their phone camera to place products in their space and purchase the one that best matches their desired color, finish, or size.

• Keep everyday Q&As with your client, manager, and team in one place with PingMi.

• If you like Monopoly Deal, you’ll love Business Deal. The game involves accumulating properties and stealing cleverly from your opponents and vice versa.

WFH.FM lets you create your custom radio station with YouTube videos, Spotify playlists, and GIFs. You can reserve a unique URL for others to listen to or add music.