Podcastfy

An open-source Python AI podcast generator that turns text and images into multilingual audio conversations and supports local LLM transcript generation.

Alternative to:

NotebookLM

Podcastfy turns source material into podcast-style audio conversations for creators and developers. It's an alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature for people who want to customize the conversation or include podcast generation in their own software.

Mixed source material: Combine websites, PDFs, YouTube videos, images and supplied text into a conversation, or use a topic as the input.
Conversation format: Create short episodes or longer discussions and adjust the language, style, structure and voices.
Local transcripts: Generate transcripts on your own hardware with local HuggingFace models, with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models also supported.
Multilingual speech: Generate audio with text-to-speech integrations for OpenAI, Google, ElevenLabs and Microsoft Edge, with examples in French and Brazilian Portuguese.

The Python package and command-line interface support automated workflows. Podcastfy is open source under Apache 2.0. Its local LLM option applies to transcript generation; audio generation uses the separate text-to-speech integrations.