Here are a few tools we've been exploring and applying in 2024, looking how they can add value, creativity and fun to what we're doing. There's some pretty impressive stuff out there and for now there's a real sense of discovery and possibility. Not sure how long it will take for the sheen of newness to wear through, and there's always the underlying question of what we might be losing in all this, but at the moment these tools are helping us connect with global multi-lingual teams, develop creative learning approaches, communicate information in engaging ways, and prompt thinking about the challenges and opportunities of supporting people to connect as humans into the future.
Would love to hear about tools and approaches you're using. Drop us a line
Video Creation and Dubbing
Create videos dubbed in different languages, as above. You can also create an avatar to automatically create videos from text.
Also Eleven Labs and Rask AI
Sharing info and presentations
Promoted as a research assistant but the instant podcast creation is pretty impressive. Hear them discuss our report from the British Council's Stronger Together programme
Generate creative slide decks, as well as documents and presentations
Music making
Create whole tunes with lyrics in seconds.
A powerful instrumental creator
Images
Has some really useful editing tools
Also MidJourney
Organising
Capture and organise voice notes
Interesting to test breaking down tasks
And for searching / researching, and as a supposedly more accurate alternative to ChatGPT, Perplexity
Some of these tools are free but some are paid for, and subscribing to multiple tools can be pretty expensive. Most though have free trials to test and see whether they bring enough value to continue with.