7. Summarize.tech
When you have YouTube on your to-do list and you don't have the time or patience to sit down and watch an entire work-related video (for example, a presentation of some kind, a marathon company conference, or maybe a meeting directory), a splendid site called Summarize.tech will make your life instantly easier.
Summarize.tech takes any YouTube link you provide and generates an on-demand transcript of the entire clip in seconds. It breaks the video into general summary sections and lets you click on any section to expand it and drill down into more specific summaries. It can even take videos in other languages, including Spanish and French, and then translate and summarize them in English for you.
You can save yourself tons of time by letting Summarize.tech summarize and transcribe long videos for you.
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Summarize.tech is free for “a few” videos per day. For more than that, the service offers a $10 per month premium plan that increases the limit to 200 videos per month.
8. Audio pen
Last but not least, if you take a lot of notes while traveling, an AI-powered app called AudioPen is a tool that's hard to beat.
AudioPen is like a dumping ground for any and all of your passing thoughts. Whenever something pops into your head—an idea for a client proposal, a potential project for your company’s next quarter, or anything else imaginable—you simply hit the record button within the service and start talking.
AudioPen stores a complete audio recording of your ramblings and also Create near-instant plain text summaries of everything you sayautomatically removing filler words and repetitions. Each individual recording then becomes a note in your virtual notebook. You can search the text, translate it into another language, and interact with it in all kinds of potentially useful ways from there.
AudioPen transforms any type of rambling into concise, organized notes for continued reference.
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Like many of the other tools in this collection, AudioPen is completely web-based, meaning it works on any device, be it a phone, tablet, or computer, and requires no downloads or installations. You canHowever, choose install it as a progressive web app if you want a more native app-like experience.
AudioPen is free for recordings up to three minutes long and with up to 10 notes stored at a time. An optional premium plan for $99 per year (or $159 for two years) removes those limitations and adds a host of additional features, including customizable styles for your summaries, inline summaries, and more. multiple notes and a simple system for sharing any notes you want to make public.
