Feeling a bit low? Exercise may help more than therapy

Extract text from images on websites and PDFs

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Convert text to non-robotic sounding speech

There is some great software that converts speech to text (such as Rev, Descript, and even MS Word), but a team mate sent me some interesting software that does the reverse - it lets you type or paste in text and uses AI speech software to voice the words in a lifelike, and non-robotic way. You can even ask it to clone your own voice by feeding it some samples of you talking.

Feeling a bit low? Exercise may help more than therapy

A study just published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine reviewed over 1000 experiments into the impact of exercise on depression, anxiety and psychological distress. The researchers stated, "When comparing the size of the benefits of exercise to other common treatments for mental health conditions from previous systematic reviews, our findings suggest exercise is around 1.5 times more effective than either medication or cognitive behaviour therapy." Check out the full paper here.