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Welcome to the first FutureTools Newsletter! You'll be able to tell your children and your grandchildren that you were on the newsletter back when Matt sent the very first one. You are a part of history right now! ;)
I'll be sending these newsletter every Friday morning (Pacific Time). It will be your weekly dose of killer AI tech to keep your eye on. My goal is to completely blow your mind every week with what's possible.
This intro is a bit longer than future emails will be but I want to set the expectation so that you're just as excited to receive future editions as you are this one.
I want to keep it simple and digestible. Each email should take no more than 3-5 minutes to consume. I review literally hundreds of tools and news articles every single week for the FutureTools website. I dig in for hours per day so that you don't have to and then I give you the TLDR of what each tool does on the site.
These emails will narrow it down even further and give you JUST the TLDR of the week. Each email will include my pick of the 5 coolest tools for the week, the 3 most exciting or interesting news articles, between 2 and 3 inspiring/educational videos, and 1 interesting way to make some side money with AI.
If all of that interests you, stick around for future issues because I promise to deliver each and every week!
Now let's dig in!
🛠️ 5 Amazing Future Tools
1. Soundraw: This has to be the tool that I find myself recommending and telling people about the most. It's a royalty-free AI music generator. You tell it the length of song you need, the style, the mood, when you want the beat to drop, the instruments you want, and a bunch of other criteria and it will us AI to generate music for you. Great for background music for podcasts, YouTube videos, and anything else you can imagine!
2. Voice.ai: This is a super fun one. This tool will change your voice to almost any celebrity you can imaging in real time. It's pretty dang accurate too. I've recorded myself as Rick and Morty, Morgan Freeman, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and more. The best part is that it's totally free! Install it on your computer, flip the switch on, and start creating awesome AI-generated celebrity impressions.
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3. Timebolt: If you do any editing on audio podcasts or videos, you NEED Timebolt in your life. You pull in an audio or a video file and it will find all the gaps in your audio, all the uh, ums, and filler words, and then cut them all out. It also helps you edit and clip out unwanted sections at super speed. You can even punch in and out on certain parts of the videos and generate timestamps for YouTube. This tool literally saves me hours on editing audio and video.
4.PlayPhrase: Have you ever wanted to find the exact scene from a show or movie where someone said something? Maybe for a meme, or for a funny cutaway in a video that you're making, or maybe just to remember what the exact quote was... PlayPhrase.me lets you search movies and shows for an exact soundbite and then download them! (Totally Free)
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5. Supercreator: If you want to make TikTok videos or YouTube shorts, you need to check out Supercreator.ai. It's an iPhone app where you tell it what you want to make a video about... It then writes the script for you, turns your phone into a teleprompter to read the script, cuts your background out of the video, adds relevant b-roll behind you, and then writes a title, description, and hashtags for you to use when you upload it. All in a single tool. 🤯
🗞️ 3 Fascinating News Articles
Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks - We're entering an era of mass disruptions in areas many thought would never be disrupted. Will we soon see a future where hiring voice talent is no longer necessary? With some of the text-to-speech generation I've seen so far, I believe we're not too far off from no longer needing to spend long hours recording in a sound booth. With tools that allow people to train their own voice and then turn it into a text-to-speech model, complete democratization of voiceover work is incoming (and with the mountains of junk content it will likely create, I'm not so sure I'm that excited about it).
OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, discusses tender offer that could value it at $29B - With tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E, OpenAI seemingly exploded into the consciousness of the average person almost overnight. The real question is how will tools like ChatGPT eventually be monetized? The valuation makes sense from the standpoint that the active userbase of their tools has grown faster than almost any other platform. However, ChatGPT is still free to use and it's leaving people wondering if we'll eventually see it become a paid platform.
NYC schools block access to artificial intelligence chatbot - The education system is not happy about GPT technology as it's making it really easy for students to cheat and have papers practically written for them. But, in my opinion, I think it's time the education system starts to look at how it operates. I think teaching students to be resourceful is just as valuable, if not more valuable, than teaching them to memorize and completely understand a concept. The genie is out of the bottle with these tools, starting a cat and mouse game between students and educators. Maybe it's time educators allow augmenting education with available technology?
📺 Must-Watch Videos
💰 A Money Idea To Try
Create and sell coloring books:
This is a random idea I had after playing around inside of MidJourney for a little bit. Did you know that you could give it a prompt and tell it to create the image in the style of a coloring book?
If you were to pick a theme, for example, exotic cars, you could generate 25-30 images in the style of a coloring book. You could then go do Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform (KDP) and create a physical book that's print-on-demand. There is no upfront cost to create the books and Amazon only prints them as they are ordered.
If you can find a few niche ideas to make coloring books around, you could start a little coloring book empire, and create nearly passive income.
Who's going to try it first? :)
Thanks for checking out this week's FutureTools newsletter! Damn, that was hard to pick just 5 tools. There are so many and I had to narrow it down to JUST the 5 that I thought gave me the most value that I'm assuming most people still haven't heard of. But, it's just the tip of the iceberg. You'll find so many more on the site. I'm already excited about next week's issue and what I've got in store for you then!
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And don't forget to check out all of the newest tools we've just added on FutureTools!
Finally, if you have any feedback for me or ideas for this newsletter, get in touch! Replying to these emails will get to me and I will read all replies. I want to improve this and continue to make it something that you're super excited about each week. So all ideas are welcome!
You rock! See ya next week. :)
Matt Wolfe (FutureTools.io)
P.S. This email was 100% written by a human. I promise!