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Enroute.fm
AI travel podcasts for 180+ countries
9 followers
AI travel podcasts for 180+ countries
9 followers
Enroute.fm narrates the places around you and in between desitnations. Enhances any trip into a guided audio tour. Global coverage: 250,000+ places across 183 countries. Each audio is an engaging, quality-controled two-person podcast.
Hi ProductHunt,
I'm the developer of Enroute.fm. I built a toy audio app originally for my last roadtrip, but went a bit crazy and scaled the podcast pipelines to almost all of the world, hoping one day I will visit all of the places.
Why? I loved using AI tools like NotebookLLM and ChatGPT for travel narrations, but they are all limited in their own ways. Human narration apps have great quality but suffer from coverage.
How? Nothing fancy, but most of the work went into building a complex quality-controled pipeline rather than the app itself. Podcasts are powered by SOTA multi-lingo & multi-speaker TTS engines. Each script is the result of converging multiple rounds of review and factcheck (yes I burned too many tokens lol).
I enjoyed using it during my roadtrip and I hope you do too!
How does it decide which spots to highlight when there are so many in a dense area, and can you pick specific themes like food or architecture before starting the trip?
@erafettinanmmk most stories are grounded from visuals and tries to cover all the interesting aspects. It uses a scoring formula based on many factors tuned from simulated drivings and derive the top N places on the fly. Then it renders them as a playlist for skipping / selecting. It's great suggestion that the scoring could pontetially be personalized.
How does it pick which stories to play when you pass a bunch of spots in quick succession, and is there a way to skip ahead if one isnt interesting?
@oguzhanuzu51595 Great question! And this is exactly where some similar apps got it wrong imo. It uses a scoring formula based on many factors tuned from simulated drivings and derive the top N places on the fly. Then it renders them as a playlist for skipping / selecting.
Love how the two-person podcast format keeps long drives from feeling like a solo Wikipedia read. The way each stop drops in naturally as you pass by makes it feel like having a knowledgeable friend in the passenger seat.