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Podcastfy – An Open Source Python alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature
1 points · Open discussionsouzatharsis
podcastfy
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podcastfy
An Open Source Python alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature: Transforming Multimodal Content into Captivating Multilingual Audio Conversations with GenAI
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An Open Source Python alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature: Transforming Multimodal Content into Captivating Multilingual Audio Conversations with GenAI
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What Hacker News says
11 sourcesPodcastfy: An Open Source alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature
1 points · Open discussionCould we replicate the NotebookLM's podcast feature as a customizable API?
Live demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/thatupiso/Podcastfy.ai_demo
Open Source Python package: https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy
Apache-2.0 license
Key Features:
- Generates conversational content from multiple sources (e.g. URLs, YouTube, and PDFs) and modalities (images+text)
- Customizes transcript and audio generation (e.g., style, language, structure, length)
- Provides multi-language support for global content creation
Technical Highlights:
- Flexible LLM integration with LangChain, supporting both cloud-based and local models
- Support for advanced text-to-speech models (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Microsoft Edge)
- Seamless CLI and Python package integration for automated workflows
NotebookLM's AI-generated voices remain unparalleled in quality (Sound
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Storm is awesome!). We would love additional contributors to help build this open source alternative!
Show HN: Open-source API alternative to NotebookLM
2 points · Open discussionI did not release the code but it's incredibly basic, and I believe OP's one is just the same.
You collect N links from HN api with any heuristic you want, then scrape those urls - preferably using pupeteer-based tooling or online equivalent (think Jina).
I then ran each url's content in an LLM to get a summary, then from all the results ask a LLM to create the conversation (and give it a tone). Then decide on the voices and characters and feed each turn into 11labs (or any tts). And finally, concatenate all audio parts, add music and effects.
If I remember correctly, mine could perform all that from a single Cloudflare worker. The catch is it can become a bit pricey because of the TTS. I remember toying with making it a product (podcast everything) and quickly discovered there's a couple of company already offering this.
NotebookLM is sl
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ightly different on the TTS front, I think they are using the amazing model google showed off a year or so ago (without giving it public access) that can generate actual multi speakers conversations with "hums" and cutting, and talking at the same time.
Added : someone just made a python lib for the usecase (also found on HN 5 days ago) https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy
Here's an open source version that generates Podcasts:
https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy
Developer's twitter: @souzatharsis
In NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviewsCheck out this prompt: https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy/blob/6ad5734c3ffb5...
In NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviewsAwesome, let me know if you run into issues whiles trying podcastfy; I can help you. Feel free to open an issue https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy/issues
In Show HN: Podcastfy AI – Open-source tool to generate AI audio conversationsI am excited to release Podcastfy.ai: An open-source Python package and CLI tool that transforms multi-modal content into engaging, multi-lingual audio conversations using GenAI; akin to Google's NotebookLM but open, programmatic, and customizable. You can simply 'pip install podcastfy' and start using it today!
You can run it on a paper, your CV, a website or even on artwork images if you like as well as the combination of the above!
I was intrigued by Google's newest GenAI product: NotebookLM, especially its “deep dive” podcast feature that converts uploaded content into a two-person AI-generated audio conversation. As Andrej Karpathy put it, "NotebookLM [...] is a re-imagination of the UX of working with LLMs" and I do agree!
While exploring NotebookLM, however, I got a bit frustrated with its UI which added friction to the process, le
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aving me yearning for more automation and customization options. This sparked a question: Could we replicate the essence of NotebookLM's podcast feature as a customizable API?
To address this, I developed Podcastfy – a weekend project built using Cursor dot com - akin to NotebookLM’s podcast feature but open, programmatic, and customizable by anyone.
Key Features:
- Generates conversational content from multiple sources (e.g. URLs, YouTube, and PDFs) and modalities (images+text)
- Customizes transcript and audio generation (e.g., style, language, structure, length)
- Provides sulti-language support for global content creation
Technical Highlights:
- Flexible LLM integration with LangChain, supporting both cloud-based and local models
- Support for advanced text-to-speech models (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Microsoft Edge)
- Seamless CLI and Python package integration for automated workflows
The Verdict:
While NotebookLM's AI-generated voices remain unparalleled in quality, this project did solve my original problem and showcased the fascinating possibilities of building GenAI products today. It's now live on GitHub, and I'd love for you to check it out and even contribute!
What would you like to Podcastfy today?
GitHub: https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy
Show HN: Podcastfy AI – Open-source tool to generate AI audio conversations
14 points · Open discussion