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You are setting up for a coffee shop gig. You have 25 songs you could play, but you only remember all the words to about half of them. A music stand, an iPad, and a teleprompter app can fix that.
Most teleprompter apps focus on the moment you are on stage. But the stage is only one part of the picture. Here is how GigScroll fits into the full cycle of learning, rehearsing, and performing music.
Speak2 has a built-in AI model that cleans up dictated text, and it works well for most people. But if you want more control — over the model, the prompt, or the output format — you can point Speak2 at Ollama instead.
You made the setlist. You typed in all the lyrics. Now the rest of the band needs it too. Here is how to share everything in one file.
A text-to-speech app should be, by definition, an accessibility tool. But most TTS apps treat VoiceOver support as a checkbox rather than a design principle. Listen2 takes a different approach.
Many writers find that speaking their ideas produces more natural prose than typing. But most dictation tools send your words to the cloud, and for writers, that means transmitting unpublished work to someone else's servers.
You are about to walk on stage and you realize you cannot read your lyrics. The text is too small, or the colors wash out under the lights. Here is how to avoid that.
You have a 40-page PDF sitting in your inbox. Maybe it is a research paper, a textbook chapter, or a compliance document your boss needs you to review by tomorrow. You know you should read it. But you also know you are not going to sit and stare at a screen for an hour.
GigScroll is a lyrics teleprompter for iPad. But it also has a built-in video recording feature that many users do not know about. Here is how to set it up and use it during a live performance.
When you speak, you say 'um,' repeat yourself, and start sentences over. Raw transcription captures all of it faithfully — which is accurate but not what you want pasted into an email.
If you perform with lyrics or charts on an iPad, you have probably had that moment — mid-song, hands busy, and you need to scroll or skip to the next tune.
You saved 23 articles this week. You read two of them. The rest are sitting in your Safari Reading List, your Pocket queue, or a folder of bookmarks you will definitely get to this weekend. Except you will not.
Speech recognition models are trained on general language. They work well for everyday words, but they struggle with the words that matter most to you.
Speak2 is a small macOS app that turns your voice into text using on-device AI. No internet required, no data leaves your Mac. Here is how to get it running from scratch.
If you play live music, you have probably forgotten lyrics on stage at least once. An iPad running a teleprompter app can fix that. Here is how to set it up from start to finish.
You are on a plane. You have a two-hour flight and a 30-page report you need to get through before landing. You open your text-to-speech app and hit play. Nothing happens. The app needs an internet connection to access its voices.
If you play live music and forget lyrics, you are not alone. An iPad on a mic stand is one of the simplest fixes — but picking the right app matters more than you might think.
Speak2 ships with seven speech model options across two engine families. Here is how to pick the right one for your Mac and your language.
When you dictate into an app, you are not just sending words. You are sending your voice — and your voice carries more information than you might expect.
Your voice is personal data. When you dictate a medical note, a legal draft, or a half-formed business idea, that audio contains information you probably do not want on someone else's server.