Would love to get some first impression feed back and hear how others would achive the same thing!
Also as a turing test you should make one and never reveal it'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.
I think when the little glitches are ironed out of 'real' TTS - we'll be awash with generated content.
There really is no stopping this train. In 2030 90% of internet content adopting the guise of being from the "real world" will be entirely generated by machine learning models. 90% of conversations you have with strangers online will likewise be with bots catered to influence you in subtle ways to maximize the return on revenue of your attention.
For dates etc - you got it. I think from memory it would be 'Wednesday' + 'the 18th' + 'of' + 'may...' + '20' + '22'
For the narrative speech it would be more words in a file. There are plenty of files (EDIT: just checked 350ish files that cover all the variations of script that can be generated at the moment)
In general the TTS - part of the project is the 'art of the almost possible' (if TTS engines sounded really good - I'd have just used one of the shelf)
Also, I promise to only churn out inane content for LOLs.
It's prerecorded snippets that came out of my mouth ;)
As to the point, its programming practice, perhaps a stepping stone to more elaborate content-generation systems, and jolly good fun too.
(Which TTS are you using? Or have I misunderstood?)
Sadly I don't think any (commercial / phoneme based) TTS would be very listenable for a podcast. Those are hand rolled fragments of speech. ( Think old school Satnavs "In " + "30 yards " + "turn left"
Would be great to do it with an off-the-shelf TTS engine but I don't think there quite there yet. I know my recording skills and microphone technique is rubbish - but if I knew what I was doing on that front - I think you'd be really hard pushed to tell it was stitched together phrases.
Which bit's of interest?
[the podcast] = [intro] [main body] [outro]
[main body] = [main prediction] [lucky colours] [alibi] etc
// these rules finally break down to text, eg
[main prediction start] = "A bite from a wild animal" or "A chance encounter"§
So the script has lots of combinations and is semi random - but it should always make sense.
Most of them have had a 40-50 listens but the one linked here has 400+ listens!
