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5 AI Tools That Save Me Hours Every Week (2026)

Skill Leap AI12:52

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If you're creating videos, podcasts, or any type 

of social media content in 2026, I want to share

with you five different AI tools that are going 

to completely change how you work. One of them

can even replace you entirely by cloning you. 

And those are the ones I personally use to save

me hours a week. And I think more importantly, 

they let me do things that just weren't possible

before AI made it possible. First on my list 

is a tool called Descript. I think I started

using this app back in 2020, way before ChatGPT 

came out. And if you create videos, podcasts,

this tool is going to completely change how you 

create, especially how you edit your videos. Now,

when you open the app or the website here, you 

could upload any type of audio or video file and

then ask Descript to do things for you. This agent 

will do all kinds of different things. It could

clean up your video recording. It could create 

social clips. It could translate your videos. It

could dub your videos in different languages. 

Ton of different things. Let me create a new

project to show you how I like to use it. Now, I 

uploaded a 7minute video here that I have to edit.

The first thing Descript does is it's going 

to transcribe this video automatically. Now,

here's the seven minute transcription here that 

it created for us. So, a couple of things you

could do. This allows you to edit this text right 

here. So, if I wanted to remove this sentence,

for example, if I press delete, it will make that 

edit in the actual video. So, you no longer have

to figure out how to do traditional editing, which 

before, if you were doing traditional editing,

you will do it with what's called a split 

tool. So, you'll go to a portion of the video,

you'll press split, it makes a cut, you go to 

another portion, you press split, and then you

select the portion you want to delete. Well, now 

you don't have to do that. You just select the

text you want to delete, press delete, it makes 

the edit for you automatically. So, that's how I

edit my videos. That's one of the easiest ways I 

do it. But they have ton of different AI tools in

their AI suite. If you click studio sound, it will 

literally create studio quality sound from any

audio that you have. And it's extremely extremely 

powerful this option. The other option I have

is either removing filler words, which any words 

like um or like will get removed. In this video,

I actually didn't have any. Or you could edit for 

clarity. And this is going to make suggestions

in all the things you need to remove to make your 

videos sound more concise and more clear, which is

obviously one of the best ways to get more views 

on your videos. Say the least amount of words,

give the most amount of value. Denny has all kinds 

of different options for making your video look

better. It could correct eye contact, for example, 

using AI. It could center the active speaker,

especially if you have a two person podcast. 

And you could also repurpose your videos. So,

if you press create clips here, it's going to 

create little clips for you to share in vertical

format. And just like that, it's found the best 

five sections from this video that I could then

repurpose and post on different social platforms. 

And they have ton of other option, but the last

one I wanted to show you for this video is called 

translate. This one will take your video and

transcribe it in any of these languages. But my 

favorite part is you could do multiple different

languages at the same time. So for Skill Leap, our 

education platform, we transcribe and translate

every single video in five different languages. So 

all I have to do is pick those languages here like

this. And this will go through every language 

you selected here and it will translated near

perfect translation here. And when you want 

to export that translation, well, you could

export it as subtitles for example here with the 

language that you want selected and including the

original language too. And you could also take 

the transcript, including the translation here,

and export that if you need it for a website 

or any other purpose, too. So, when it comes

to doing any type of video creation or any type of 

audio editing, this is the tool that has saved me

the most time out of all the tools that I've used 

in the last few years. The next one on my list is

called Hen. And this is going to completely change 

how you think about being on camera because you

no longer have to be on camera. HeyGen actually 

lets you create AI avatars and your own digital

twin. It will let you clone yourself and use 

that to create videos. In this box right here,

you could actually type in any idea you have. This 

will create, for example, a customer onboarding

video. Now, if you look up here, well, it's pulled 

in my AI avatar. All you have to do is click right

here. You could choose from any existing avatars 

that they have. So they have ton of different ones

available or under my avatar. This is where I've 

cloned myself and you have different options for

the length of the video. In this case, I'll make 

it one minute video. And you could decide if you

want this to be landscape or portrait. Now this is 

what this video agent actually does. It takes your

prompt and it takes your AI avatar and it creates 

an entire plan for itself to create the video for

you. If I go to the assets tab, it has other media 

here. So, it's created different media with the

top AI tools like Veo, for example. It's also 

created different design elements like full-on

animations here to go along with our video. And as 

soon as the video is done, I'll show you what it

looks like. Welcome to our platform. Let me show 

you around so you can get the most out of your

experience. Your dashboard is your command center. 

Here you'll find a clear overview of your projects

and real-time updates. Our automation tools take 

care of the repetitive tasks so you can focus on

the high impact work that matters. Collaboration 

is builtin. Share projects, leave comments,

and work together with your team in real time. 

You could also dub videos into different languages

with lips sync. Here's an example of me speaking 

Hindi. I don't speak Hindi, but my AI avatar does.

I mean, how useful is that? Now, I could translate 

and dub all my videos on YouTube and in our

courses into ton of different languages and make 

it globally accessible. Next on my list is Art

List, which is my go-to platform for creating 

AI videos and AI images using the top models.

And they're also the sponsor of today's video. 

Art List recently showed their ad in the Super

Bowl. And instead of spending months and millions 

producing traditional big Super Bowl commercials,

they created their entire spot in-house in less 

than a week using Art List AI toolkit. WA The

biggest ads of the year are finally here. A huge 

celebration of creativity on the world's biggest

stage. After months of hard work and millions of 

dollars, they really outdid themselves. But now,

with Art List AI tools, you too can create 

high-end video production. All you need is a

good idea. Heck, we bought this ad spot a week ago 

and made it in 5 days for just a few thousand. So,

what's your idea? And this is the commercial 

production world that I actually come from. That's

my background. So, most brands in that world, ad 

agencies spend 6 months just on a 60-second or a

30-second commercial. Art list ran three different 

creative concepts in parallel using AI. One

concept parody current 2026 big game ads. Another 

one paid homage to iconic ads from the past and a

third one imagine what the next year advertisement 

could look like fully using AI generated visual.

Now if you haven't used art list before they 

recently added this right here AI toolkit. So

this lets you pick from the top image models down 

here and the top AI video models down here. So for

image, you just type out your prompt over here 

and then you choose from this list of the top AI

models. So right now for image generation, Nano 

Banana Pro is probably my favorite one and Flux

is also one of my favorites with Flux 2.0 Pro. Now 

if I go to the video tab, when it comes to video,

they have the top AI models too. So the Google 

ones, Veo still one of my favorites here. Sora

Cling 3 is just recently one of the newer option 

available. Now they're also adding Cance 2.0.

0 very soon. So maybe by the time you're watching 

this video, that's going to be a model that is

going completely viral right now. That should be 

available pretty soon. They have 1.5 Pro right now

available. And one of the reasons why I like this 

platform is they release the very best AI models

pretty much around the time that they get released 

to the public in this platform. And you get access

to all of them in one platform. My workflow is 

typically generate the image and turn it into the

video. Well, this lets me do that, but I could 

choose and compare the different AI models and

see how they compare side by side, too. I'll put a 

link in the description of this video so you could

try Art List for yourself and access the top image 

and video models all in one place under the same

workspace. Next on my list is 11 Labs. 11 Labs 

is the leading platform for creating AI generated

voices. They sound almost perfectly human here and 

they have a massive library of voices to choose

from and they actually license legendary voices 

from some of the most famous voiceover actors of

all time too that you could use in your projects. 

I'm going to show you a couple of different use

cases. One of them is brand new here and 11 Labs 

just like the platforms I've covered in this video

has a lot to offer. So definitely worth exploring. 

But what I wanted to start with is inside of the

studio tab, there's this option for creating 

podcasts. Now, this is very unique. There is

a platform called Notebook LM that also generates 

podcast, but this lets you do it with voices that

you choose. So, you could choose the host voice 

and you could choose the guest voice and you

could upload a document as your source or you 

could import directly from a URL. In this case,

I have a document. I'll just use one of 

our course transcripts here. Then you could

choose the podcast format. So conversational is my 

favorite. And you could choose the duration here,

short, default, or long. I'll choose the 

default option here. And then you could

choose between a host voice and a guest voice. 

And again, the entire library of all the voices

here are available. You could listen to any of 

them. Pick your favorite. I'll just pick these

two default options right now. And I'll go ahead 

and generate this one. Building a website used to

take months of coding and thousands of dollars. 

But artificial intelligence just flipped that

reality on its head. The other day, my 15-year-old 

nephew showed me a professional business website

he created in under two hours. The accessibility 

factor is huge. These platforms like Hostinger

and Lovable are essentially giving everyone the 

power of a professional web development team. And

this new option inside 11 Labs that I also found 

really interesting is called audiobooks where you

could create entire audio books here. And they 

also have something called 11 reader which this

becomes basically a platform. Upload your ebook to 

11 reader with free dynamic narration. And here's

what an AI generated audio book sounds like. In 

the valley of Arendor, where the White River split

around a crown of ancient oaks, a bell began to 

toll. Not the kind of bell that called farmers

from fields or merchants from their stalls. 

This belt was older than the village clustered

beneath it. 11 Labs also has ton of options like 

text to spech, voice changer, voice isolator,

and it's really a platform worth exploring if you 

work with any kind of audio files. Next on my list

is for generating music. So instead of searching 

for the perfect song for your video, well,

you could just generate your own. My favorite 

platform for that is called Suno. They recently

released their V5 version, but the V4.5 version is 

also great and it has free usage here. And all you

have to do is type in a song description here. 

And if you want to include your own lyrics and

your own style, you could also do that. And they 

have other options with paid option like Persona.

But I'm going to use the simple option here. And 

I'm going to type in a song description. And you

could choose if you want them to be instrumental 

or if you want them to have lyrics along with it.

I'm going to generate a couple different tracks. 

And then I'll go ahead and play a little bit for

you so you could see how great the quality 

of this AI generated music is inside of Suno.

Blue light buzzing in my bones. Stone keeps 

flicking through the unknown. Room stands.

So, if you're looking to level up your content 

creation this year, I would recommend testing

at least one of these tools out for yourself. 

See how it fits in your workflow. I covered

pretty much anything from video editing to 

generating AI avatar, generating AI videos,

and even generating music. So, one of these 

should be a good fit for your current workflow

to really take it to the next level. And if 

you want to see deeper dive in any of these,

let me know in the comment section 

below. All the links are included.

Thanks again for list for sponsoring 

this video and I'll see you on the next