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Editor’s note: Be sure to read the terms of service and privacy policies for these tools  before using them, particularly with sensitive internal meetings or interviews.

WHAT’S NEW

LegiTalk from CT Mirror
Tool that summarizes legislative meetings and provides transcriptions for reporters to use. They can then click forward to the section of the video to confirm the transcript.

Gemini in Drive
Summarize and ask questions about Google Drive videos

Noiz
Summarizes YouTube videos with AI

AI Text Summarizer by AI4How
Summarize lengthy texts instantly and capture the key points with AI-powered accuracy. 100% free, no login required.

How to Use ChatGPT Record Mode
Summarize meetings and voice notes with ChatGPT

Nieman Lab: Three Newsrooms on Generating AI Summaries for News

YouTube Summarizer
Free tool that offers a quick way to generate video summaries, enhancing user understanding and saving time. Powered by cutting-edge AI technology, users simply paste a YouTube URL to gain concise insights, facilitating better viewing choices. Perfect for anyone wanting to efficiently process video content.

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You can find more summarization tools on the Toolbox audio page.

Summarize.tech
Post the link to a YouTube video and get a written summary of that video in a few minutes.

Summarize.ing
AI-driven summaries of YouTube videos

LegalCheckPro
Review contracts and legal documents and simplify them into clear, easy-to-understand summaries

YouTube Summary with ChatGPT and Claude
Chrome browser extension that gives quick and easy video summaries.

Notclass
Search inside of YouTube videos with this AI-driven tool and get relevant segments

Eightify YouTube Summarizer
Chrome browser extension to summarize videos quickly.

Monica Browser Plug-in
AI assistant that can do many things, including summarizing videos.

Nieman Lab: Three Newsrooms on Generating AI Summaries for News

Otio
Uses AI to summarize research, documents and links

LegiTalk from CT Mirror
Tool that summarizes legislative meetings and provides transcriptions for reporters to use. They can then click forward to the section of the video to confirm the transcript.

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AI Summarizer
Free tool that also has  paraphrasing capabilities

Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant
Get quick answers and one-click summaries from PDFs.

Noiz
Summarizes YouTube videos with AI

Gemini in Drive
Summarize and ask questions about Google Drive videos

Notta
Notta is an AI-based voice-to-text transcription software that supports 104 languages. Notta excels at transcribing and summarizing audio or video files, online meetings, and voice recordings. Additionally, Notta offers a suite of team alignment features, enabling users to schedule and transcribe Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams meetings, among other functionalities.

Book Summaries
Explore chapter-level summaries of bestselling books.

AI Text Summarizer by AI4How
Summarize lengthy texts instantly and capture the key points with AI-powered accuracy. 100% free, no login required.

YouTube Summarizer
Free tool that offers a quick way to generate video summaries, enhancing user understanding and saving time. Powered by cutting-edge AI technology, users simply paste a YouTube URL to gain concise insights, facilitating better viewing choices. Perfect for anyone wanting to efficiently process video content.

Google Illuminate
Transform research papers into AI-generated audio summaries

ReadPartner
Personal AI assistant for automated news digest and quick summaries of websites, videos and documents.

Tubit AI
AI that summarizes YouTube videos for a deeper understanding

Fathom
Transcribes, highlights, and summarizes meetings

Briefy
Turn long content into summaries

YouTube Summary

TLDR This
Free text summarizer

MyLensAI
Key points of any web page & YouTube in one click

How to Use ChatGPT Record Mode
Summarize meetings and voice notes with ChatGPT

CoStorm
A prototype from Stanford University that will search several websites based on a prompt, pull links and research into a summary for you. It also can write a story or paper, but use the summary feature instead. It’s a good research/summary tool, just don’t have it write for you.

Subtitly
Realtime subtitles and translations for apps

AI is Likely a Bad News Editor
Damon Kiesow, Knight chair at the University of Missouri, on how summarization tools might on be all they are cracked up to be.

 PaperGuide
Upload long academic papers and get quick, clear summaries and outlines.

Fathom
AI notetaker that captures, summarizes, and acts on meetings.

PicNotes
Converts images into summarized text with AI

PDF Flex
Summarize and convert PDFs 

Merlin AI
AI extension to write, summarize and code

Paperguide
Manage and understand research papers easier

Particle
Better understand news stories through summaries, explanations, and interactive Q&As

Afforai
Search, summarize, and translate knowledge from hundreds of documents

ThatNeedle
Build AI summaries of YouTube videos

Paraphraser AI Summarization Tool

Semrush
Free text summarizer

Quillbot
Will rewrite and summarize a block of text.

Cramify
Upload large studies and this tool will summarize them for you to help you study.

Adobe Acrobat AI Summarizer
Acrobat now has AI tools that will summarize and analyze PDFs.

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PHONE APPS

Owll AI
Mobile app that captures audio interviews, lectures, speeches, etc. and makes a quick outline, transcription and highlights.

Otter
Desktop and phone app that will record meetings/letures and provide transcription/outline/summary. Free account with paid upgrades. Be careful with privacy (read the policy closely) on the free account.

SpeakApp
Phone app that generates summaries and outlines from meetings, lectures, etc. Paid app with free trial.

Unstuck
Phone app that generates summaries and outlines from meetings, lectures, etc. Paid app with free trial.

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