Automated text to youtube video: What do you think of the possibilities?

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Hi,

I built a script that converts any text into a youtube video.

You give it a URL, and it will:
- Extract the title
- Extract the text
- Convert the text into paragraphs
- Convert the paragraphs into MP3 (Using text-To-Speech)
- Extract the people, location, and dates from the text (Named Entity Recognition, using AI & NLP)
- Search for related images
- Use the title, images and MP3s to generate a video slideshow
- Publish the video on youtube.


The data-to-video step takes a few steps itself:
- Generate an Haxe/OpenFl project using a template I coded
- Compile the source into a SWF
- Transcode the SWF into a MP4

I'm integrating a text rewriter this week into the mix.

I know exactly what I'm going to do with that awesome piece of tech.
The question I'm asking is this: What use do you envision for that tech?

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  • Profile picture of the author nmwf
    I'm not a fan of anything that scrapes text from the internet. Even my own article generator doesn't do that. I do, however, like the idea of automating video production.

    Is there a way you could develop this for ethical use?
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    • Profile picture of the author 26medias
      Originally Posted by nmwf View Post

      Is there a way you could develop this for ethical use?
      Yes.

      At its core, it's just a video generator, so the ethic of its use is on the hand of the owner.

      The code is modular, so I can use any data structure and generate any type of video with it, by just modifying the Flash template (the animation is generated as a SWF first, then converted to a MP4)
      Stupeflix is an API that does that, letting you create videos using an XML template, but it costs $2 per 30 seconds of video, which is why I developed my own engine. Mine is also much more flexible...

      My project involves scrapping text from the web (and spinning the text which is a very shady way of avoiding copyright issues) because I'm planning on publishing hundreds of videos every days, banking on the number of views it will generate. Not ethical, but efficient to generate money on a complete auto-pilot (well, besides the hundreds of hours I spent on the code)
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  • Profile picture of the author NevinC
    It is a great idea for generating video content from old or new articles that you own. It's a great idea. There are also similar programs out there.
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