Turn news articles into ready-to-listen podcast episodes

News articles are picked, summarized, and converted into audio, creating a podcast episode automatically.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Voice & PhoneWeb Scraping & Data Collection
Connects
Google GeminiHugging Face

The problem it solves

Producing a podcast from current news means reading through articles, writing a script, and recording audio, which is a lot of work for a daily or weekly show. Most people don't have the time or equipment to keep that up consistently.

Who it fits

Content creators, students, or anyone who wants podcast-style audio content from news without recording it themselves.

How it works

  1. The system fetches the latest news articles
  2. AI filters for stories that would work well as a podcast segment
  3. It pulls the full article content
  4. AI writes a script summarizing the story for audio
  5. The script is converted into a finished audio file
What you get

News turned into episodes without recording

Wake up to a finished podcast episode built from the day's top stories, fully scripted, voiced, and ready to publish.

What you get

A ready-to-publish audio file summarizing current news, built without any recording or scripting by hand.

What you need

A Google Gemini API key and a Hugging Face account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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