Podpod
Turn anything into a podcast
356 followers
Turn anything into a podcast
356 followers
Podpod turns the things you don’t have time to read into podcasts. Just add podpod.me/ in front of any article URL, or forward a newsletter to your personal podpod email and it’s turned into an episode with AI hosts and delivered straight to your podcast app.
MoonPay
@simon____brown if I queue 5+ articles at once, does Podpod space them out like a playlist or drop them all at once into the app?
MoonPay
@hamza_afzal_butt as they are generated the RSS feed that your podcast app uses is updated for each one - all separate podcasts. You can manually refresh your podcast app but they'll be there straight away :)
@simon____brown thats great love it 🙌🏽
Podpod
@simon____brown @hamza_afzal_butt We're currently working on the ability to bundle multiple articles into a single Podcast!
@simon____brown @hamza_afzal_butt @pixel_arts this would be awesome. i can imagine bundling all the articles in an X or Threads list / topic into a podcast to stay up to speed on a topic area. You can set how often you want it to refresh. Almost like your personal Perplexity Discover feed.
minimalist phone: creating folders
I would wish to turn my unread books or books from my "wish list" into audiobooks. Is it somehow possible? E.g. when they are in PDF?
MoonPay
Hi @busmark_w_nika ! Thanks for the suggestion, PDFs and other inputs is something we'd love to add. We currently support URL and email.
minimalist phone: creating folders
@simon____brown Can't wait for that option then :)
Podpod
Hey Product Hunt,
I'm Max the engineer behind Podpod, I've had so much fun building this with Simon.
Figuring out how to go from a piece of text to a dialog between two AI voices was the most fun. I ended up using a queue system (using BullMQ) with a few different steps:
Scrape and validate url content
Run through Mistral AI agents:
Read content and extract key information
Convert text into a Podcast script
Transform script into SSML and fine tune punctuation, intonation, speed, etc
Feed the SSML to our AI Speech service
With this setup we can transform pretty much any type of content into a podcast, we started with Websites, we now support Emails and we're adding more and more.
I'm really excited to see how people will use this, and I can't wait to implement features that people want!
Codrops Blueprints
Cool idea! I like that it auto adds to apple podcasts, I could see myself using it as a save for later kind of thing.
MoonPay
@grsmto we think this is the best feature :)
This is great! Podcasting the articles is a nice way to tackle info overload. I'll definitely explore this. The two-host format sounds really engaging. Do you have plans to let users customize the AI hosts? Like personality, voices, way of speaking, language, etc?
MoonPay
@pranay12 great thank you! yeah we'd love to see how to develop this, I'm sure you've seen https://www.openai.fm/ where you can really be quite specific on style. We're struggling a bit on quality from OpenAI's voices, when it drops below 'studio' quality voice it makes the podcast a little bit harder to listen to. I'm sure the tech will catch up soon though!
@simon____brown yeah I've seen that!
I see where the challenge is. All the best! Excited for @Podpod 's future!
The process of turning articles into AI podcasts is surprising simple, and it's great that you can listen without needing to download anything. Congrats on the launch!
MoonPay
@feliciana_liu thank you for noticing this, we really wanted to go 'app-less' and have it totally merge with your daily habits
Algebras AI
Just tried it out - perfect solution! Any plans to add more settings (e.g., change voices)? Or is the goal to keep it fast and simple?
MoonPay
@olgacherepanova thank you, we're so happy you found it useful! And yes :) We have a few concepts in mind, some shared on our website. We wanted to start with a neutral, catch-all hosts to begin with, but we love the idea of having hosts that can pull in more information around the internet. And just for fun a gossip podcast just to see if it works. Let us know any thoughts or types of hosts you'd like!