Three Creative and Original New Apps

Developers keep finding interesting ways to make our existing tech more useful. Sometimes that means refining how we interact with tools we already rely on. Other times it means applying software to problems that don’t obviously look like “tech problems.” Here are three apps that take a slightly unconventional approach. Xspeak — a meeting companion for people who sometimes struggle to articulate their thoughts in fast-moving conversations. It transcribes discussion in real time and helps you decide how and when to respond. Drooid — a news reader that focuses on surfacing bias and showing how different outlets frame the same story. Parall — a utility that lets you run multiple configurations of the same app simultaneously on a single Mac. XSpeak What problem this solves - Contributing effectively in meetings when conversations move faster than your ability to respond. Xspeak is not a generic Whisper front end. It supports multiple on-device speech recognition models, and the entire…