Happy to show off my latest project: a computer-generated, AI-powered podcast of the news in Japan.
by Daniel DavisHappy to show off my latest project: a computer-generated, AI-powered podcast of the news in Japan.
Japan Daily News is 2-minute episodes you can listen to while brushing your teeth.
It uses ChatGPT for translation & phrasing and ElevenLabs for voice.
In more detail, it uses Python to grab stories from the NHK RSS feed, gets ChatGPT to summarise them, passes that to ElevenLabs to get an audio version, uploads that to Internet Archive, then publishes a post on GitHub Pages which is pushed to the podcast XML. And somehow it works!
Thanks to @reustle and my buddies in the Tokyo Tech community for suggestions and support.
The Python script that runs it all is open source, so feel free to copy and play:
https://github.com/tagawa/JapanDailyNews
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Do you have any plans to expand this project to other countries and topics in the future?
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Hi. Thanks for asking. No, I don't have any plans for expansion at present. The ElevenLabs API can get pretty expensive – I currently pay around $40/month for daily 2-minute episodes on two websites.
I'd probably only consider expanding if I could work out a way of getting revenue and more traffic.
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