rss2podcast

A locally hosted, AI generated podcast from an rss feed.

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How it works

The application reads an rss feed, extracts the articles and summarises them.

RSS + Ollama + TTS = Podcast

RSS

The application reads an rss feed and extracts the articles. Each of these articles are then processed by scraping the article content.

Ollama

The application uses a locally hosted version of Ollama. The Ollama API is used to summarise the article content. Default model used is mistral:7b

TTS

The summarised article content is then converted into an audio podcast using the Coqui TTS API.

Dependencies

This project requires the following dependencies to be installed on your system.

Ollama

You can install the Ollama server by following the instructions on the official website.

Ollama needs to be running on your local machine for the application to work. The application is configured to use the default Ollama server URL http://localhost:11434/api/generate. This can be changed via the config.yaml file.

ffmpeg

ffmpeg is a command-line tool for handling multimedia files. It is used to convert the generated audio files to the MP3 format.

macOS

You can use Homebrew to install ffmpeg on macOS:

brew install ffmpeg

Windows

1. Download the ffmpeg build for Windows from the official website.
2. Extract the downloaded ZIP file.
3. Add the bin directory from the extracted folder to your system's PATH.

Linux

The installation command depends on your Linux distribution.

Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ffmpeg

Coqui TTS

Coqui TTS is a text-to-speech synthesis system that uses deep learning to create human-like speech from text. You can install the Coqui TTS server by following the instructions on the official website.

Docker

Start the container by using the following command:

docker run -d -p 5002:5002 --platform linux/amd64 --entrypoint /usr/local/bin/tts-server ghcr.io/coqui-ai/tts-cpu --model_name tts_models/en/ljspeech/vits

Installation

Clone the repository and navigate into the directory:

    git clone https://github.com/yourusername/your-repo.git
    cd your-repo

Then, install the dependencies:

go mod download

Usage

To run the application, navigate to the cmd/rss2podcast directory and run:

go run main.go

Testing

To run the tests, use the following command:

go test ./...

Configuration

The application's configuration is stored in a config.yaml file. Here's what each section does:

Podcast

This section contains information about the podcast.

podcast:
  subject: "News" # The subject of the podcast
  podcaster: "Cody" # The name of the podcaster

RSS

This section contains information about the RSS feed.

rss:
  url: "https://www.reutersagency.com/feed/?taxonomy=best-topics&post_type=best" # The URL of the RSS feed
  max_articles: 10 # The maximum number of articles to fetch from the RSS feed
  filters: # Keywords to filter articles by
    - "Daily"
    - "Weekly"

Ollama

This section contains information about the Ollama service.

ollama:
  end_point: "http://localhost:11434/api/generate" # The URL of the Ollama service
  model: "mistral:7b" # The model used by the Ollama service

TTS

This section contains information about the Text-to-Speech (TTS) service.

tts:
  url: "http://localhost:5002/api/tts" # The URL of the TTS service

You can modify these values to suit your needs. Remember to restart the application after making changes to the configuration file.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please open a pull request with your changes.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.