Voxsmith 2 – The Beginning!

After months of building, debugging, and arguing with LLMs, Voxsmith is officially real. It’s at the point where I could stop right now and be proud of what it does.

So what does it do? It connects your PowerPoint deck to ElevenLabs and automatically creates audio narration for your slides. On the first pass, it even attaches the audio directly to each slide. You can process the entire deck, a range, or just one slide–perfect for quick edits after the initial run.

V2.12 got the option to close the deck automatically when the process finishes–so you can kick off a session and let Tomorrow You handle it.

A few more updates are coming to make version 2 truly complete. The first is Draft Mode, which lets you test your slides with a local OS voice (or a better one if available) so you can tweak and time things without burning ElevenLabs credits.

We’re also locking down API security, moving away from plain-text keys and paving the way for multi-key support in future releases.

I’ve tested this thing, and it’s fast. A full 27-slide deck took three minutes flat. Where are my PowerPoint-to-ElevenLabs copy-and-paste wizards? This will save you days–unless you’re already living that macro life.

All of these remaining updates will bring Voxsmith to v2.15. For now, it’s Windows only, with full Mac support coming in version 3.

If this sounds useful in your workflow, drop a comment, I am looking for beta testers!

 

Focus Mode: Dumb Phone

IOS home screenA few weeks ago, I scrolled upon a person extolling the virtues of Focus Mode on iPhone, especially setting up a focus called dumb phone. No media, no notifications. Nothing. There weren’t any screen shots, or details, or even a particular use case, still, the idea of this intrigued me greatly.

So much so, that after 1 too many weeks of super angry internet, I decided to set it up for myself! What I have done is created a focus where the Home Screen is nothing but stock apps that I use, plus Signal. My regular notification rules apply to the apps, which is fine. However, the magic is that no other apps are allowed notifications. None. Of. Them. Easily accessible from the Home Screen with a long press and a swipe, this has been really nice for me.

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