piper_podcast

Podcast generator with 2 hosts using Ollama and Piper. Inspired by NotebookLM, but is generally of much lower quality.

Requirements

• Tested on Python 3.13
• Install the requirments with pip: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Piper installed and in PATH (executable with piper-tts)
• Download Piper voice models to the voices folder: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
• Ollama installed and serving
• llama3.2

Usage

1. Create a text file where you insert the text you want the AI to discuss.
2. Execute the script with this syntax:

python podcast.py <speaker 1>.onnx <speaker 2>.onnx <text>.txt 

3. Check the script, press Enter, and your podcast will be generated to ./audio/generated/<current time>.ogg

Demo

Based on text from this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

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