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18 AI Tools to Speed Up Content Creation

Audrey Crouse
October 10, 2024
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a game-changer, enabling organizations to create, deliver, and scale educational content like never before. AI is particularly crucial for customer education and instructional design because it enhances efficiency, automates repetitive tasks, and delivers personalized experiences.

For those of us involved in creating video content, voiceovers, help articles, and course materials, AI tools can transform the way you work, increasing both productivity, efficiency, and learner engagement.

If you haven’t jumped into the world of AI, now’s your chance. To get you started, we’ve compiled this list of some of the most valuable AI tools across four key areas of content creation.

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Video Creation

Video content offers a dynamic way to convey information. However, creating professional-quality videos can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. These AI tools can simplify this process, making video creation faster and more accessible.

1. Pictory

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Key Features: Converts long-form text or blog posts into short, engaging videos. Provides automatic captioning and branded templates.

Why Use It: Perfect for repurposing content into professional videos quickly, and requires no video editing experience!

2. Synthesia

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Key Features: AI avatars that speak 140+ languages, customizable videos, and collaboration tools to easily exchange feedback across teams.

Why Use It: You don’t need real actors or complex production equipment to create scalable, high-quality training videos.

3. Lumen5

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Key Features: AI transforms a variety of content types into videos, with a drag-and-drop interface for easy editing.

Why Use It: Templated designs, preset text and image placements, styles and color themes make it quick and easy to repurpose text-based content into social media-ready videos.

4. Visla AI

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Key Features: Visla offers a suite of video generating, editing, recording and collaboration tools to help simplify the video creation process and easily share across multiple platforms.

Why Use It: Just think —you can create a professional, engaging video efficiently and cost effectively.

5. Veed.io

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Key Features: Offers video editing, AI avatars, AI translate, recording, and voiceover adjustment tools.

Why Use It: Supports a variety of use cases, and does not require specific software or equipment.

6. FlexClip

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Key Features: User-friendly interface, templates, stock assets, and drag-and-drop editing capabilities, along with cloud-based storage for easy access and collaboration.

Why Use It: It simplifies the video production process for clips that can be used across multiple channels–it’s easy to navigate and has a library of video templates to choose from.

7. Deepbrain.ai

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Key Features: Stylized and editable video templates, an AI-powered video production studio, text-to-speech technology, and AI Script Assistant.

Why Use It: Its AI-powered avatars can drastically reduce production time and costs associated with hiring actors or presenters, while still delivering an human-like experience.

Voiceovers

Adding voiceovers to your content enhances accessibility and engagement, especially for educational materials. These AI-powered voiceover tools eliminate the need for professional voice actors, while offering customization options for tone, language, and emotion.

Speechelo

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Key Features: Converts text to speech in over 30 voice styles with adjustable pitch and speed—you can even change the inflections, pauses, and tones of voice.

Why Use It: Quick and easy for generating natural-sounding voiceovers.

2. Resemble.ai

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Key Features: Realistic voice synthesis, custom voice cloning, and high-quality human-like text-to-speech conversion.

Why Use It: Ideal for creating unique, branded voiceovers for long-form content like training modules.

3. Play.ht

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Key Features: Text-to-speech with voice cloning that accounts for accents and dialects in over 142 languages.

Why Use It: It’s a flexible voiceover tool, equipped with emotional and expressive text-to-speech models that power professional voiceovers for your video content.

4. Altered.ai

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Key Features: Voice cloning, customization, multilingual support, real-time voice modulation, scalability, and seamless integration with existing tools for diverse content creation needs.

Why Use: It enables personalized, cost-efficient, and consistent voice experiences at scale, saving time while reaching global audiences with high-quality, emotionally responsive AI voices.

Help Article Creation

Help articles and FAQ docs provide timely and efficient guidance, and require an incredible amount of time to produce and maintain. These AI tools can quickly generate well-researched, optimized content, while improving search visibility and giving you time back in your day.

1. Writesonic

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Key Features: AI-driven writing assistant to help generate articles, blog posts, landing pages, and SEO-optimized content.

Why Use It: Its AI-generated text reduces the time you’ll spend drafting articles from scratch, making it a valuable tool for quickly producing high-quality written content.

2. Frase

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Key Features: AI content generator that helps you research, write and optimize content for SEO.

Why Use It: A perfect solution to improve the structure and discoverability of you help articles.

3. TextCortex

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Key Features: AI-powered content generator, personalized writing assistance, multiple language support, and seamless integration with popular writing platforms.

Why Use It: It significantly reduces the time and effort required for content creation, allowing users to generate engaging, custom-written material across a variety of industries and formats (blog posts, product descriptions, and email copy).

Course Content Creation

Creating educational courses, especially for complex topics, can be challenging and time-consuming. AI tools designed for course content creation can assist in organizing materials, generating quizzes, and personalizing learning experiences, so that both you and your learners enjoy the experience.

1. Lingio

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Key features: Gameified learning, mobile-first learning format, and a coaching portal to track the impact of each course.

Why Use It: You can transform static training material into dynamic and mobile-friendly content within a few clicks.

2. Easygenerator

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Key Features: Drag-and-drop course creation tool, live co-authoring for collaboration, built-in video recording and editing, AI-assisted content creation, and multi-device publishing.

Why Use It: It helps simplify and accelerate e-learning development, while being accessible for both beginners and experienced course developers.

3. LearnExperts.ai

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Key Features: Transforms existing SME content, such as presentations and videos, into structured learning objectives and content. It includes tools like automatic test question generation, best practices guidance, and multi-format content export.

Why Use It: Imagine spending 67% less time on scripting and 98% less time updating existing courses—that’s what’s possible with this tool.

4. Learnt.ai

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Key Features: It includes over 110 AI tools that help automate and streamline the process of creating lesson plans, assessment questions, and activities.

Why Use It: Save yourself time creating engaging content for your learners.

Food for Thought

By integrating AI into your workflow, you can create more engaging, scalable, and personalized experiences for your audience, whether through video, voiceovers, help articles, or course content. No matter your skill level, these tools empower you, the creator, to deliver professional-grade content quickly—embrace the freedom of focusing more on strategy and less on execution.

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Audrey Crouse

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Audrey Crouse is a Marketing Programs Manager at Intellum. She brings a blended experience of building academic programs in higher education and developing customer advocacy programs for B2B SaaS organizations. She is passionate about learning and elevating the voice of others.