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3 use cases
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Listen to the daily TLDR newsletters as a podcast
Pick a date, hit Broadcast and get one chapterized episode per newsletter in your browser.
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Run mat-nolen/tldr-radio with `make up`, broadcast <date>, and list the episodes created with their chapter counts. Confirm no external API keys were needed.
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Study a deterministic, LLM-free text to audio pipeline
Run the dev setup to see how parse, template script and Kokoro TTS produce reproducible audio.
- REPO
mat-nolen/tldr-radio - Personal productivity
- Intermediate
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Set up the mat-nolen/tldr-radio dev environment with Kokoro on port 8880, broadcast <date>, and confirm the generated script text matches the archive stories word for word apart from pronunciation fixes.
- REPO
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Run and monitor the self-hosted podcast stack
Use the make targets to follow logs, stop services and see every available command.
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On <server>, run tldr-radio with `make up`, check `make logs` for errors during one broadcast, then `make down`. Report any errors seen.
Quick start with TLDR Radio
- Check you have what it needs: Docker; About 5 GB of disk for images.
- Open mat-nolen/tldr-radio on GitHub and read the README and license.
- Clone the repo and cd into TLDR Radio
- Check prerequisites with
make doctor - Start it with
make up - Open the player, pick a day and hit Broadcast
These steps come from our top use case, Listen to the daily TLDR newsletters as a podcast, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.
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About this repo
- Who it is forNewsletter readers who would rather listen while commuting or cooking, and developers interested in deterministic audio pipelines.
- Why it is hot110 stars, launched 78 days ago
- LanguagePython
- Sourcegithub.com/mat-nolen/tldr-radio · Back to Hot repos
Requirements
- Docker
- About 5 GB of disk for images
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Questions about TLDR Radio
What is TLDR Radio?
TLDR Radio is a self-hosted Docker app that turns the public TLDR newsletter archive into chapterized podcast episodes using a deterministic script and local Kokoro text-to-speech, with no LLM and no accounts. It is an open-source project on GitHub: https://github.com/mat-nolen/tldr-radio.
Who is TLDR Radio for?
Newsletter readers who would rather listen while commuting or cooking, and developers interested in deterministic audio pipelines.
What can I do with TLDR Radio?
3 use cases so far, for example: Listen to the daily TLDR newsletters as a podcast; Study a deterministic, LLM-free text to audio pipeline; Run and monitor the self-hosted podcast stack. Each has steps and a copy-paste agent prompt.
What do I need to run TLDR Radio?
Docker; About 5 GB of disk for images.
What are alternatives to TLDR Radio?
Other hot AI repos in Personal productivity: Cleanyourtv, Attention Control, Linkit, Obsidian Mind, Sayit.
Is TLDR Radio safe to run?
Deduped does not own, audit or vouch for it. Read the README and license, run it on your own systems first and review every command before you run it.