A podcast of the latest news from Japan, powered by AI with computer-generated voice.
Encouraged by friends in the Tokyo Tech community, the Japan Daily News podcast uses AI to generate natural English summaries of NHK news stories, which are then converted into human-sounding speech. The result is short, easy-to-digest English news updates that are directly from a Japanese source.
japandailynews_2023-04-07.mp4
- Website: GitHub Pages and the Jekyll static site generator
- Theme: LinkRot podcast theme
- Audio file hosting: Internet Archive
- News source: NHK RSS feed
- English-language summaries: OpenAI API (GPT)
- Text-to-speech: ElevenLabs API – see my ElevenLabs API Python tutorial
- Programming: Good ol’ Python
