On Reddit recently there was some discussion of Perl podcasts. T. Alex Beamish mentioned the Perl Weekly and Olaf Alders suggested someone could record themselves reading it.

This conversation was mentioned in issue #725 of the Perl Weekly and Gabor tied that back to my recent blog post about Generating Content with ChatGPT and suggested:

would it be possible to have some Perl script that would take the content of the Perl Weekly newsletter and using some AI tool would generated a podcast out of it? Any volunteers?

Of course it would. And this code is a proof of concept. The steps are:

1. Ask ChatGPT to script a conversation based on the content of an issue of Perl Weekly
2. Use a text-to-speech service (I've used ElevenLabs) to turn that into an MP3

There are a couple of sample episodes in the repo.