Convert Blog Posts to Podcasts Automatically

You spent months writing quality blog content. Now let it reach the 500M monthly podcast listeners who never read articles.

The Automation Pipeline

1. Extract content — Parse your blog's RSS feed or CMS
2. Clean markup — Strip HTML, preserve structure
3. Generate audio — Convert each post via Speeko TTS
4. Host audio files — S3, R2, or any CDN
5. Generate podcast RSS — Wrap episodes in valid podcast XML
6. Distribute — Submit to Apple, Spotify, Google

Sample Implementation

import requests
import feedparser

feed = feedparser.parse('https://yourblog.com/rss')

for entry in feed.entries[:10]:
    text = clean_html(entry.description)

    response = requests.post(
        'https://api.speekoapp.com/v1/tts',
        headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_KEY'},
        json={'text': text, 'voice': 'am_michael', 'format': 'mp3'}
    )

    with open(f'episodes/{entry.id}.mp3', 'wb') as f:
        f.write(response.content)

Podcast RSS Template

Your generated RSS needs iTunes namespace tags: itunes:author, itunes:image, itunes:category, plus per-episode enclosure tags pointing to your MP3 files.

Economics

A 1500-word blog post is roughly 9000 characters. At $0.03 per 1K, that's $0.27 per episode. A 100-post archive: $27 total.

Beyond Basics

• Add intro/outro music with ffmpeg
• Use different voices for dialogue or quoted sources
• Auto-generate show notes from the original post

Start automating.