Poddle is a simple CLI-based podcast generator. It uses a JSON podcast file, such as the ones in the examples/ folder, to generate a simple "listen-and-repeat" style language learning podcast.

Poddle uses AWS Polly for text-to-speech generation. Poddle requires that you have an AWS account with access to the Polly service. You will need to create an IAM user with access to Polly and generate an access key and secret key. Use the AWS CLI and run aws configure to set up your credentials.

npx poddle@latest [COMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Poddle can be globally installed as well.

npm install -g poddle

The new command will generate a new podcast JSON file in the current directory.

Usage: poddle new [options] <name>

Get a template for a new podcast

Arguments:
  name        Name of the JSON file of podcast

Options:
  -h, --help  display help for command

Simply provide the file formatted with the poddle json schema. The create command will automatically prompt you for which voices to use for the podcast. You can also specify the voices using the -H and -G flags.

Usage: poddle create [options] <file>

Create a podcast from a JSON file

Arguments:
  file                   JSON file of podcast

Options:
  -H, --host <speaker>   The name of the AWS Polly host speaker
  -G, --guest <speaker>  The name of the AWS Polly guest speaker
  -h, --help             display help for command

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