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Allan Palmer's avatar

Text-to-Voice is an interesting feature. I've had a very quick play with it and it seems to work OK. I've just tried typing in some text and generating an audiio file, copied/pasted some trext fro,m a file, and also tried using an image as a source.

One thing that confused me was the "Upload files" button on the AI text-to-voice screen - you can't upload a text file, so if you want to hear the text from a Word doc or a PDF, you have to copy/paste the text. I don't feel there's enough clarity as to what you can use the tool on at the moment. (I appreciate the range may develop over time, but it would be good to have more explanation on what can be used).

Would it be possible to read an EN Note aloud? I think that's part of what what I was expecting when I saw that EN were looking at text-to-vouice.

Will the AI text-to-voice function be included in the main EN app in the future? (Like the other tools such as 'Transcribe Files to Text', and 'Rewrite text with AI')

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Jon Tromans's avatar

I've not had a play with the upload doc part yet but will give it a go and try and figure out how to use it.

Read aloud would be god built into the app. I'll ask.

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William Powers's avatar

Thanks Jon. On an unrelated topic, I hope Evernote is working hard to integrate AI more comprehensively. Having to copy notes into NotebookLM (and then keep the NotebookLM versions uodated) is quite tedious. How glorious it would be to have NotebookLM-type multi-note summaries and analyses within Evernote. This would either be a powerful marketing advantage for Evernote or the opportunity to create a higher more-expensive tier. Perhaps a more immediate solution would be able to quickly upload Evernote notes into NotebookLM (or any competitors.

I'm afraid the alternative for Evernote is a dwindling customer base as people store their notes in the AI models.

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Jon Tromans's avatar

They are. I saw some development screens and ideas yesterday on one of the expert calls. Looks very interesting but can't say anything yet. More AI stuff is being worked on but I don't it will be very soon as in weeks or the next month or two.

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PhilP's avatar

At least for me here in the US, this mac version does not have the global font settings and the version notes don't mention it either. I updated via Evernote and then also downloaded from the website but neither had this functionality.

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Jon Tromans's avatar

Try a log out and back in again. They are rolling it out so it may take 5 - 7 days before you get iteven if you're on the correct version.

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PhilP's avatar
7dEdited

Thanks for the suggestion. I logged out and back in but still no global font settings. I didn't realize that the function would need to be enabled rather than just being part of the updated software. That must be the situation for me. I'll just have to be patient. Thanks again.

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Allan Palmer's avatar

Yes - ir seems ro be obe of tgose features which is "rolled out" to the user base gradually. I had also updated to the latest (Win) version, vut it took about 3 log out/log back in sessions over a day before I saw the hglobal fint settings.

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Dany Pelletier's avatar

Global font settings has been a long time coming. I noticed it yesterday and I was thrilled!!! I have been changing my headers' colors since headers existed. Now it's just done.

That combined with the personalized templates that include tags equals AWESOME!!

Also, big kudos for the new search. I have many large notes and always found myself having to do a double search to find what I am looking for, general search followed by search within the note. So much better now!

Good job Bending Spoons!

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Jon Tromans's avatar

Its good and better than legacy Evernote as we have headers :)

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