How do I turn blog posts into audio automatically?

You can automate blog-post-to-audio in a few common ways, depending on how hands-off you want it to be.

Option 1: Use a text-to-speech (TTS) API

This is the most flexible approach.

Basic flow

1. Pull the blog post content
   From your CMS, RSS feed, database, or page URL.

2. Clean the content
   Remove navigation, ads, footers, and anything not meant for audio.

3. Send the text to a TTS service
   Examples:

   • Amazon Polly
   • Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
   • Microsoft Azure TTS
   • ElevenLabs
   • OpenAI TTS

4. Save the audio file
   Usually as MP3 or WAV.

5. Publish it automatically
   Attach it to the blog post, upload to your media library, or generate a podcast feed.

Example automation tools

• Zapier / Make: trigger on new post → send text to TTS → store MP3
• Custom script: Python/Node.js cron job or webhook listener
• Serverless workflow: AWS Lambda, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run

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Option 2: Use a CMS/plugin

If you use WordPress, Ghost, or similar platforms, there may be plugins that:

• convert posts to audio automatically
• add an audio player to posts
• generate voices using built-in TTS or third-party APIs

This is the fastest setup if you want minimal coding.

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Option 3: Generate a podcast-style feed

If you want every blog post available like an episode:

• Convert each post to audio
• Store the MP3 file
• Create or update an RSS podcast feed with the audio enclosure
• Users can subscribe in podcast apps

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Recommended setup

For most sites:

• CMS trigger when a post is published
• Script cleans HTML
• TTS API generates audio
• Audio stored in S3 or similar
• Embed audio player on the post page

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Important tips

• Summarize or shorten very long posts for better listening
• Use punctuation-aware cleaning so the voice sounds natural
• Cache generated audio so you don’t regenerate it repeatedly
• Check licensing/privacy if using third-party TTS services
• Handle updates: regenerate audio when a post changes significantly

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Simple pseudo-workflow

New blog post published
→ extract article text
→ remove boilerplate
→ send text to TTS API
→ save MP3
→ attach audio URL to blog post
→ optionally update podcast feed

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a no-code Zapier/Make setup,
2. a Python script, or
3. a WordPress-specific solution.