Eleven labs does exactly this - just put a link to any article or body of text - pick a voice to narrate it (out of hundreds and any language) and save it to your phone or computer or whatever to listen - I’ve been listening to all the long form articles I want to read at the gym !
using podcastfy (python lib) I just created a workflow where I can turn any url, pdf or youtube video into a custom ai-generated podcast. it even generates an rss feed so I can listen on my phone via fountain when I'm out and about.
I just pointed it at my relatively empty website to see what would happen:
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/bbbd6633c2fafa9c.mp3
this is hilarious.
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this is a bit different, it will reformat the content into a podcast (two people talking back and forth and going over the content). its not just direct text to speech. its nice for technical papers that are hard to get through.
Oh got it - like notebook LM :)
The audio ai is really a game changer - love the idea of curating a heap of content (which gives you much more quality control) & creating your own custom conversation on a topic !
