Turn AI newsletters into a daily podcast
An agent runs overnight, collects the author's AI newsletter subscriptions and produces a daily podcast to listen to on walks.
What they did
In Claude Cowork on a Mac Mini, connected to Gmail, the author had the agent build a 5 AM scheduled task. It pulls newsletters under one label, skips about 18 low-value ones, reads the rest, and writes a synthesis. A local Qwen3-TTS model turns that into an MP3, which is pushed to GitHub Pages with an RSS feed. The author chose audio and the voice.
How it went
It took about two hours in one session, and the first episode (8-10 minutes) was waiting in Apple Podcasts the next morning. Voice setup was the messy part: the macOS voice was unusable and edge-tts was unreliable.
Worth knowing
Local Qwen3-TTS took about 30 minutes to install, with dependency conflicts and a stalled download, and peaked at 6.5GB memory on a 16GB Mac; the author used the Claude Max plan ($100/month).
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An agent runs overnight, collects the author's AI newsletter subscriptions and produces a daily podcast to listen to on walks.
An agent runs overnight, collects the author's AI newsletter subscriptions and produces a daily podcast to listen to on walks.
produces a daily podcast to listen to on walks.
An agent runs overnight, collects the author's AI newsletter subscriptions and produces a daily podcast to listen to on walks.
In Claude Cowork on a Mac Mini, connected to Gmail, the author had the agent build a 5 AM scheduled task.
In Claude Cowork on a Mac Mini, connected to Gmail, the author had the agent build a 5 AM scheduled task.
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- Oct 11, 2026 · Submitted by Bronson Elliott
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- Oct 14, 2026