Stefan Motz

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About wikipodia Why Wikipodia? Back in 2005, more than 18 years ago, I had the idea to create a podcast from Wikipedia articles using text-to-speech (TTS). And – just in case – I reserved the domain wikipodia.de . Yet, the TTS engines weren’t that great and licensing the generated audio was not affordable at all. On top, the texts of Wikipedia is nothing that you should pass to a TTS engine right away. Fast forward to end of 2023, I cleaned up some of my domains and stumbled across wikipodia.de again. Technology evolved a lot and so I eventually took the Christmas break 23/24 to let AI bring Wikipodia to live. From creating a podcast script from a wikipedia page over generating the voice to

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podcast