daily-news-caster

Your headlines, turned into a two-host podcast.

news podcasting

What it does

Fetches current news, turns it into a two-host Markdown podcast script, and generates a podcast audio file.

When to use it

Use when the user asks for the latest news to be read as a podcast.

Give it a request for the latest news; it returns a Markdown podcast script in chat and a path to the generated audio file.

What you provide

This skill

public news sources

Read

Reads public news sources

news-aggregator-skill/scripts/fetch_news.py

Execute

The news fetcher

tts/scripts/tts.py

Execute

Generates speech line by line

ffmpeg

Execute

Merges the podcast audio

python3 must be available to run the news-fetching and text-to-speech scripts.

ffmpeg must be available to concatenate the generated audio files.

A noiz.ai account is needed only for voice-cloning features using the noiz backend.

The workflow requires news-aggregator-skill to fetch the latest news.