vocast

I'm working on my self-host TTS cli application for turning articles into spoken audio which I can stream from my PC to mobile device when I'm out and about. It's called Vocast: https://github.com/cnrmurphy/vocast Thinking about adding some things like queuing RSS feed items to be converted to audio and a feature for being able to do the conversion from my phone.

Hi all, I wanted a way to listen to articles in my reading queue while out for a walk or just generally away from the computer. There are apps that can do this already, but I didn't want to pay for one and I thought it seemed simple enough to build myself. So, I built Vocast - a cli tool using local TTS to convert articles to audio and expose them as a podcast RSS feed. You can subscribe using your existing podcast app (Apple Podcasts has worked well for me). Currently it uses Kokoro for TTS which I chose because it seems to be a good compromise between quality and speed. Generated audio files are stored in a local library and the cli provides commands to add, list, and delete those files. I use Tailscale to expose the local web server to my mobile device. I've provided instructions on how to do so in the README. So far it's worked well f

Recently I made Vocast (https://github.com/cnrmurphy/vocast) - a cli driven tool that uses local TTS models to convert articles to "podcasts" and expose them via RSS feed. I wanted a way to listen to articles without having to pay for an app. I convert the article on my PC (which gets added to a managed library), run a web server, run Tailscale on both PC and phone, then I can use a podcast app to access my library. Nice way to consume some articles while out for a walk or anything else and has worked reasonably well for me so far.