Westmoreland County Community College Library: Generative AI Student Research Guide: AI Tools

These suggestions range from free usage/free trial to various pricing plans
depending on how they will be used.

AI Tools

Beautiful.ai
An online platform that helps users create professional presentations effortlessly.
Bing
ChatGPT
DeepSeek
DeepSeek: What You Need to Know
2/5/2025
Goblin Tools
A collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.
Perplexity AI
An AI chat tool that acts as a search engine. What’s helpful about this tool is its ability to display the source of the information it provides and where it is found on the open web. If you want to limit your answers to a particular website, use “site:www.nameofyourwebsite.com” in your prompt.

AIVA
Mubert
A platform for music creation and streaming powered by AI. It uses artificial intelligence to instantly produce and play unique music.
MURF.AI
An innovative text-to-speech solution that leverages advanced AI and deep learning techniques to produce incredibly lifelike voice recordings.
Soundful
Suno
Create music and add your own lyrics!

Adobe Firefly Video Model
Adobe claims that Firefly Video Model is trained exclusively on licensed content, potentially sidestepping ethical and copyright issues that have plagued other generative AI tools.
Gen-2
Invideo
OpenAI gives first look at Sora, an AI tool which creates video from just a line of text
This tool has been met with skepticism and concern it could be misused.
Sora
YouTube announces new generative AI features for video, music and inspiration
9/18/24

NotebookLM
From Google. NotebookLM can turn anything you upload into an AI-generated podcast episode. Each notebook you create can include one of these “audio overviews” featuring a conversation between two AI voices.
NotebookLlama
From Meta. Transforms PDFs into podcasts.
Article about Pros and Cons of NotebookLlama
Illuminate
A text-to-audio AI, this is a way to listen to academic articles (on the go?), but there is no way to check the veracity of the podcast (unless you read the academic article, of course, which doesn’t really save you time).

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