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Consulting and implementation are separate enquiries.", "path": "/products/", "label": "Explore the apps", "url": "https://xantrans.com/products/" }, { "id": "start-a-project", "question": "What should I prepare before contacting Toms?", "answer": "Explain the business problem, your current process, the tools involved and what a useful result would look like. Include your market and budget. Use the enquiry form to review your brief before submitting; scope and terms are agreed before work begins.", "path": "/start/", "label": "Prepare a brief", "url": "https://xantrans.com/start/" } ], "services": [], "products": [ { "slug": "tableread", "name": "TableRead", "description": "Your screenplay, in one workspace. Import scripts, keep projects separate and return to your saved drafts.", "category": "SCREENPLAYS · PRIVATE BETA", "url": "https://xantrans.com/products/tableread/", "launchUrl": "https://read.xantrans.com/", "availability": "Invite-only beta. Sign in with an approved Google account. Audio generation uses a capped allowance. AI story analysis remains unavailable.", "searchTitle": "TableRead: your screenplay workspace", "audience": "For writers and filmmakers who want to hear their drafts.", "useCases": [ "Keep scripts separate. Listen with distinct voices, change speed, and save notes and your place." ], "steps": [ "Email us the Google address you want to use.", "We'll let you know when your account is invited.", "Preview the voices and allowance, confirm generation, then press play." ], "boundary": "Invite-only beta. Audio generation uses a capped allowance." }, { "slug": "wreckage", "name": "WRECKAGE.SYS", "description": "Build a shot around your image. Combine camera moves and world effects, then shape the action and intensity.", "category": "AI VIDEO", "url": "https://xantrans.com/products/wreckage/", "launchUrl": "https://wreckage-sys.higgsfield.app/wreckage", "availability": "Opens the Higgsfield edition in a new tab.", "searchTitle": "WRECKAGE.SYS: AI video camera moves and effects", "audience": "Creators planning an AI video shot from a still image.", "useCases": [ "Explore how a camera move changes the feel of the same starting image.", "Combine a camera move with a world effect, then adjust action and intensity for the shot." ], "steps": [ "Open the Higgsfield edition of WRECKAGE.SYS.", "Start with your image and choose the camera moves and world effects.", "Shape the action and intensity for the shot you want to make." ], "boundary": "WRECKAGE focuses on a shot around an image. For selecting a still viewpoint from a panorama, use Panoload. Check access and any generation charges in the app before running a job." }, { "slug": "panoload", "name": "PANOLOAD", "description": "Turn a panorama or image into a virtual set. Pan and zoom to find your angle, then capture the frame for your next shot.", "category": "VIRTUAL SETS", "url": "https://xantrans.com/products/panoload/", "launchUrl": "https://panoload.com", "availability": "Opens panoload.com in a new tab.", "searchTitle": "Panoload: frame shots from panoramas and images", "audience": "Filmmakers and visual creators exploring framing before their next shot.", "useCases": [ "Explore several compositions from one panoramic location image.", "Capture a chosen viewpoint as a reference frame for the next shot." ], "steps": [ "Open Panoload with a panorama or image you can use.", "Pan and zoom through the virtual set to find a composition.", "Capture the frame for your next shot." ], "boundary": "Panoload helps choose and capture a viewpoint. 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Plus, a practical use for ChatGPT Space.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-14-argon-recast-ltx/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-14-argon-recast-ltx/index.md", "published": "2026-10-14", "updated": "2026-10-14", "category": "AI News" }, { "title": "AI News, 13 October: Muse Wonder, Codex code review and expressive speech", "summary": "Meta launches Muse Wonder for longer agent tasks. 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Today’s roundup also covers Magnific One’s image workflow and Google’s announced Gemini agent for enterprise work.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-09-sol-ultrafast-claude-motion-brand-kit/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-09-sol-ultrafast-claude-motion-brand-kit/index.md", "published": "2026-10-09", "updated": "2026-10-09", "category": "AI tools" }, { "title": "AI News, 8 October: ChatGPT Intelligent UI reaches more plans and Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives", "summary": "OpenAI's new GPT-6 Chat experience can assemble interactive answers, with Free and Go rollout starting today. 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Mistral Large 4 enters API preview, while Kandinsky 6 releases video weights and Nano Banana 2.1 reaches the Gemini API.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-07-decisions-architect-creative-models/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-07-decisions-architect-creative-models/index.md", "published": "2026-10-07", "updated": "2026-10-07", "category": "AI tools" }, { "title": "AI News, 6 October: Codex’s terminal update and ElevenCreative’s ad challenge", "summary": "OpenAI's October 5 Codex demonstration shows a terminal workspace for several coding tasks, while its 0.160.1 release contains a narrower MCP fix. ElevenLabs' October 1 ad competition offers a creative brief with substantial entry and rights conditions.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-06-codex-elevencreative/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-06-codex-elevencreative/index.md", "published": "2026-10-06", "updated": "2026-10-06", "category": "AI tools" }, { "title": "AI News, 5 October: Photoshop meets ComfyUI, LTX meets post-production", "summary": "A Photoshop panel sends selections through the user's own ComfyUI workflows and returns new layers. LTX documents video paths for subject mattes, SDR-to-HDR conversion and larger canvases.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-05-photoshop-ltx-workflows/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-05-photoshop-ltx-workflows/index.md", "published": "2026-10-05", "updated": "2026-10-05", "category": "AI creative tools" }, { "title": "AI News, 4 October: Whistle, FLUX 3 Image and Comfy Agent", "summary": "Cactus released a small on-device speech recognizer on October 2. This issue also catches up on two October 1 creative-tool releases: FLUX 3 Image's layout-aware editing and Comfy Agent's workflow-building assistant.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-04-whistle-flux-comfy/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-04-whistle-flux-comfy/index.md", "published": "2026-10-04", "updated": "2026-10-04", "category": "AI creative tools" }, { "title": "AI News, 2 October: Kling 4, Ideogram 4.5 and HeyGen Video", "summary": "Three late-September creative AI updates now have different routes into a production workflow: Kling's limited Flash video preview, Ideogram's focused image edits, and HeyGen's API for short scenes with sound.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-02-kling-ideogram-heygen/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/ai-news-2026-10-02-kling-ideogram-heygen/index.md", "published": "2026-10-02", "updated": "2026-10-02", "category": "AI creative tools" }, { "title": "Gemini 4 Argon targets longer jobs, but public access is still to come", "summary": "Google's 30 September announcement introduces a model built for sustained coding and knowledge work. 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Here is what changes for dialogue, voice agents and existing voice-cloning workflows.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/eleven-v4-voice-direction-turbo/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/eleven-v4-voice-direction-turbo/index.md", "published": "2026-10-01", "updated": "2026-10-01", "category": "AI audio" }, { "title": "OpenAI launches dots: AI agents that keep working between conversations", "summary": "Dots bring ongoing tasks, connected apps and a cloud computer into ChatGPT. The launch has an important catch for Baltic users: personal Pro access initially excludes the European Economic Area.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/openai-dots-always-on-agents/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/openai-dots-always-on-agents/index.md", "published": "2026-09-29", "updated": "2026-09-29", "category": "AI automation" }, { "title": "MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview adds adjustable thinking to its coding model", "summary": "MiniMax's new preview gives coding users five thinking-depth settings. 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FLORA combines model-specific LoRA training with a canvas for comparing the results.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/flora-custom-style-models/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/flora-custom-style-models/index.md", "published": "2026-09-27", "updated": "2026-09-27", "category": "Creative workflows" }, { "title": "ElevenLabs Audiobooks casts characters from your manuscript", "summary": "Character Casting finds speakers in an EPUB or PDF, proposes voices, and lets authors audition them on dialogue from their own book before generating a multi-cast audiobook.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/elevenlabs-audiobooks-character-casting/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/elevenlabs-audiobooks-character-casting/index.md", "published": "2026-09-25", "updated": "2026-09-25", "category": "Creative tools" }, { "title": "Muse gives businesses a route into AI tasks through its connector directory", "summary": "A useful service can become part of a customer’s conversation with Muse. 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Object Swap serves a narrower job: changing one element in the original clip.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/higgsfield-genjutsu-reference-motion/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/higgsfield-genjutsu-reference-motion/index.md", "published": "2026-09-25", "updated": "2026-09-25", "category": "Creative workflows" }, { "title": "DeepSeek DSec lets agents build the sandboxes used to train agents", "summary": "DeepSeek's September 19 report describes DSec, a production platform where agents can build reusable training environments.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/deepseek-dsec-agent-training-sandboxes/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/deepseek-dsec-agent-training-sandboxes/index.md", "published": "2026-09-25", "updated": "2026-09-25", "category": "AI integrations" }, { "title": "Fish Audio Drama 3 preview adds voice direction and single-word retakes", "summary": "Fish Audio is previewing a text-to-speech model that takes plain-language performance direction, handles multi-character scenes and promises repairs to one word of a recording.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/fish-audio-drama-3-voice-direction/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/fish-audio-drama-3-voice-direction/index.md", "published": "2026-09-25", "updated": "2026-09-25", "category": "Creative tools" }, { "title": "ACE Studio lets you direct an AI vocal, one phrase at a time", "summary": "Turn a vocal recording into editable notes and lyrics, shape the delivery, then mix it with your own effects. 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A separate tethered VR device is planned for spring 2027.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/meta-glasses-connect-2026/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/meta-glasses-connect-2026/index.md", "published": "2026-09-24", "updated": "2026-09-24", "category": "AI hardware" }, { "title": "Higgsfield’s Blender Bridge lets an AI agent work in the open 3D scene", "summary": "The Blender add-on can place editable set geometry in a scene and use that scene as the starting point for generated video. Its Bridge gives an agent access to the open project, while regular Higgsfield MCP generates assets separately.", "url": "https://xantrans.com/blog/higgsfield-blender-bridge-scene-to-video/", "markdownUrl": "https://xantrans.com/blog/higgsfield-blender-bridge-scene-to-video/index.md", "published": "2026-09-24", "updated": "2026-09-24", "category": "Creative workflows" }, { "title": "Jev gives AI automations a faster way to make decisions", "summary": "TypeSafe’s decision model can route requests, score options and help agents choose their next move. 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