Show HN: A fully automated podcast – actually 12 podcasts

Very good idea and execution. I think you could do a lot more interesting stuff than making it about horoscopes.<p>Also as a turing test you should make one and never reveal it&#x27;s entirely automated until it develops a big following. Due to the speed of automation you could mass produce podcasts of different types until one sticks, then the ones gaining more traction put 10x more resources into, etc.

Can you elaborate more on the TTS? Did you prerecord fragments (how many did you actually do?) and you just stich them together? So there is a may.mp3, 22.mp3 and your scripts just puts them together?

This makes me dread that soon many other podcasts will be automated like this, and it&#x27;ll be orders of magnitude more difficult to find good content than it already is.

You have a text error in the description. A daily horoscope podcast for Aquariums. Also the episode for May 22nd narrates the date as April 22nd. But I love this concept. Is this an AI speech engine or pre recorded snippets? Where did you get the text snippets from? Have you thought of incorporating GPT-3 into your horoscopes ala co-star?

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”.

Disturbingly accurate in my case. I&#x27;ve seen many arcane things today - including matches.<p>(Which TTS are you using? Or have I misunderstood?)

What vocal synthesis program did you use? Sounds 100% real at parts.

Interesting! Is the code for the automation available?

whatever there may be, it&#x27;s drowned in ad- and spyware.

So how die you do it?

how many listeners did you got already from this ?