9 Free AI Tools You've Never Heard Of Worth Trying

TL;DR

Nine lesser-known AI tools cover motion capture, voice, and image tasks. Standouts include BGBye, a free background remover running 10 AI models at once, GeoSpy, which identifies where a photo was taken, and SoBrief, offering over 73,000 free AI-generated book summaries with no signup required.

Transcript

I spend most of my time testing AI tools for this Channel and there's a lot of tools that I come across that are amazing but hard to make into a full video at least one with a catchy title and thumbnail so I've compiled into one video the coolest and most useful tools that I think most people will have never seen before I also threw in a couple tha... Read More

Key Insights

• BGBye is a free background remover that runs 10 different AI models at once so you can click through each result and pick the best, handling hard cases like hair with no signup or login required.
• Skyglass lets you walk through an Unreal Engine environment as a 3D character in real time with facial motion capture, currently iPhone-only and available in beta on the $18-per-month Pro Plan.
• ElevenLabs speech-to-speech uploads your audio and swaps the voice while keeping the original inflection, motion, and timing, working best for capturing emotion that text-to-speech misses, starting at the $5-per-month plan.
• GeoSpy identifies where a photo was taken from the image alone, correctly naming spots like Thor's Well in Oregon and Mesa Arch, though it performs better with well-known landmarks than obscure locations.
• GenType, a Google Labs experimental tool at labs.google, generates an entire alphabet from a text prompt in about 30 seconds, letting you regenerate individual letters and test the font before downloading.
• SoBrief hosts over 73,000 AI-summarized books completely free with no signup, organized with key points, quotes, and takeaways, and offers a listen option, monetizing through Amazon affiliate links.
• Aspect is a social media app resembling Instagram where every other user is AI, generating likes, comments, and DM replies relevant to your uploaded photos, costing $10 per month for unlimited interactions.
• A voice-clone workaround fixes bad mic audio: record with poor audio, clone your own voice from a clean sample, then run speech-to-speech to convert the poor audio into clean audio of yourself.

Questions & Answers

Q: What is the best free background remover AI tool?

BGBye (bgbye.fyrean.com) is described as the best background remover the creator has seen, and it is completely free with no signup, login, or anything required. It works by using 10 different AI models at once, so within a few seconds you can click through each option to find the best result. This is especially helpful for hard cases like images with hair, where each model handles the edges differently, letting you pick the cleanest one and download it. It was found on the stable diffusion subreddit and made by a creator named Fyrean.

Q: How does ElevenLabs speech-to-speech work?

ElevenLabs speech-to-speech lets you upload your audio and then select a voice from their library, and it will retain the inflection, motion, and timing of the original recording while changing it to a different voice. Because most text-to-speech does not capture emotion well, speech-to-speech is presented as the best way to fix that. You need at least the $5-per-month plan, which the creator says gives plenty of usage. They have many voices available, and you can click to browse and preview more voice options before choosing one.

Q: Can AI identify where a photo was taken?

Yes. GeoSpy (geospy.ai) lets you upload an image and it tells you where the photo was taken, working quickly. In the video it correctly identified Thor's Well in Oregon with an exact location, plus Mesa Arch, Denali, and Macau. It performs a really good job when there is something well-known in the image and is good at getting at least the general area for other photos. However, it struggled with more obscure spots, sometimes only getting the right country or general region rather than the precise formation or city.

Q: What is SoBrief and is it free?

SoBrief (sobrief.com) is a service with over 73,000 books summarized by AI, and the whole thing is completely free with no signup. You can search for a book or choose from categories, then read or listen to a thorough summary of the entire book. The summaries are well organized with key points, quotes, and takeaways, which the creator found better than asking ChatGPT to summarize. It appears to monetize through Amazon affiliate links on each book. When a searched book wasn't listed, the loading bar suggested it purchased a digital copy, then skimmed, read, and generated the summary.

Q: How can I fix bad microphone audio using AI?

The creator shares a pro tip combining a voice clone with ElevenLabs speech-to-speech. If you record a section without a good mic and the audio quality is poor, you can create a voice clone of yourself using a sample with good audio, then run speech-to-speech converting your poor audio into yourself with good audio. In the video this worked really well, turning a low-quality recording into clean audio. This combination is useful whenever you have mic issues but still want professional-sounding narration in your own voice.

Q: What can you do with Skyglass?

Skyglass is an iPhone-only app that lets you walk around an Unreal Engine environment as a 3D character in real time. It does facial motion capture while also capturing your movement through the scene, with many environments and characters to choose from, such as an apocalyptic city and a goblin. After choosing an environment you set the floor height and select a character. It could be used across social media or in workflows for creating AI films. One drawback is it doesn't show arm movement, though it lip-syncs well and shows some body movements like crouching. This beta feature is on the $18-per-month Pro Plan.

Q: What is GenType from Google Labs?

GenType is an experimental AI tool available at labs.google that creates an entire alphabet from a text prompt, letting you generate really unique and out-there fonts. Google released many experimental tools there, and while the creator says a lot of them aren't great, GenType is one they found cool. It generated a full alphabet in about 30 seconds from prompts like crop circles or butter on pancakes aerial shot. You can open individual letters and regenerate them until they match, then test the font in a box before downloading it.

Q: What is the Aspect AI social media app?

Aspect is a social media app that looks just like Instagram, except everyone in the app besides you is AI. After creating an account and following random accounts, your feed fills with AI people, complete with comments from other AI accounts and typical AI weirdness and deformities. When you upload photos, you get notifications of likes and comments relevant to the pictures, and you can even DM the AI accounts, which respond very fast. It costs $10 per month for unlimited interactions. The creator shared it mainly because they found it strange rather than personally useful.

Summary & Key Takeaways

• The creator compiled nine useful but lesser-known AI tools that weren't enough for standalone videos. It opens with Skyglass, an iPhone-only app that captures you as a real-time 3D character in Unreal Engine environments with facial motion capture, available in beta on the $18-per-month Pro Plan.

• ElevenLabs speech-to-speech changes a recording's voice while retaining inflection and timing, useful for adding emotion or fixing bad mic audio via a self voice-clone. Free tools follow: BGBye removes backgrounds using 10 AI models at once, and GenType creates full custom alphabets from prompts.

• GeoSpy identifies photo locations from images, nailing landmarks like Mesa Arch and Denali. SoBrief offers 73,000-plus free AI book summaries you can read or listen to. Weirder entries include Aspect, an all-AI Instagram clone at $10 per month, and Friend, an always-listening wearable device.