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Show HN: A fully automated podcast – actually 12 podcasts

#1

Post by holdenc137 » Sat, May 21, 2022, 7:23 PM UTC

"That Horoscope Podcast - Aquarius" and it's eleven siblings - are daily podcasts that are end-to-end programatically generated e.g. scripted, voiced, post-produced and uploaded.

Would love to get some first impression feed back and hear how others would achive the same thing!

Show HN: A fully automated podcast – actually 12 podcasts
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#2

Post by tobr » Sat, May 21, 2022, 8:06 PM UTC

I can’t say I understand the point of this, so my only feedback is that the date in the episode from Saturday 21st of May is announced as “Thursday 21st of April”.

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#3

Post by edent » Sat, May 21, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

Disturbingly accurate in my case. I've seen many arcane things today - including matches.

(Which TTS are you using? Or have I misunderstood?)

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#4

Post by number6 » Sat, May 21, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

So how die you do it?

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#5

Post by vanous » Sat, May 21, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

Interesting! Is the code for the automation available?

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#6

Post by mro_name » Sat, May 21, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

whatever there may be, it's drowned in ad- and spyware.

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#7

Post by papathunk » Sat, May 21, 2022, 9:22 PM UTC

mro_name wrote: post #6

whatever there may be, it's drowned in ad- and spyware.

hmmm - it's on Anchor (spotify owned) - I wonder where the spyware is coming from.

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#8

Post by papathunk » Sat, May 21, 2022, 9:24 PM UTC

vanous wrote: post #5

Interesting! Is the code for the automation available?

Will clean it up if there's enough interest. It's in a few parts ... 'transcript' generation, then the speech assembly... then dropping in the backing track + intro / outro, then uploading.

Which bit's of interest?

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#9

Post by papathunk » Sat, May 21, 2022, 9:27 PM UTC

edent wrote: post #3

Disturbingly accurate in my case. I've seen many arcane things today - including matches. (Which TTS are you using? Or have I misunderstood?)

Haha.

Sadly I don't think any (commercial / phoneme based) TTS would be very listenable for a podcast. Those are hand rolled fragments of speech. ( Think old school Satnavs "In " + "30 yards " + "turn left"

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#10

Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 21, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

number6 wrote: post #4

So how die you do it?

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