TTS podcast feed with Astro and Azure TTS

What this is

• A web app that makes it possible to save articles you want to read.
• It generates an audio version of the article using Azure TTS, and saves the content into a sqlite3 database.
• It gives you a podcast feed you can subscribe to.
• It uses Redis + BullMQ to create a task queue for creating articles.

Where this is up to

• I would like to add a separate JSON API so that I can create an Apple Shortcut to add a new article to the web app. This should be fairly simple.

Setup instructions

• Clone repo
• run npm install
• Copy .env.sample to .env and fill in API key and API region from Azure TTS API
• run node initialise-db.mjs to setup the sqlite database.
• Install Redis
  • On Arch Linux, I used:

    sudo pacman -S redis
    systemctl start redis.service
    systemctl enable redis.service

• run npm run dev to start Astro dev server and task queue.

Astro Starter Kit: Minimal

npm create astro@latest -- --template minimal

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🚀 Project Structure

Inside of your Astro project, you'll see the following folders and files:

/
├── public/
├── src/
│   └── pages/
│       └── index.astro
└── package.json

Astro looks for .astro or .md files in the src/pages/ directory. Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name.

There's nothing special about src/components/, but that's where we like to put any Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components.

Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the public/ directory.

🧞 Commands

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:3000
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
npm run astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check
npm run astro --help	Get help using the Astro CLI

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