Convert Blog Posts to Podcast Episodes with GPT-4o, ElevenLabs & Google Drive

Description

📊 Description
Automate your entire content-to-audio workflow by converting new blog articles into fully produced podcast episodes using AI scriptwriting and ElevenLabs narration. 🎙🤖 This automation monitors an RSS feed for new posts, rewrites each article into a human-sounding podcast script, generates natural-sounding audio, uploads the MP3 file to Google Drive, builds an RSS-compatible episode entry, and notifies your team on Slack when the episode is ready. Perfect for brands, creators, and teams looking to scale multi-format content distribution without manual recording or editing. ⚡🎧

🔁 What This Template Does
1️⃣ Runs daily (10 AM) to check your RSS feed for new blog posts. ⏰
2️⃣ Fetches newly published articles and loops through each one. 🌐
3️⃣ Sends the article text to an AI agent to rewrite it into a natural, conversational podcast script. 📝🤖
4️⃣ Ensures clean AI output using a structured JSON schema. 📐
5️⃣ Converts the rewritten script into high-quality MP3 audio using ElevenLabs. 🎙🎧
6️⃣ Uploads the MP3 file into a Google Drive folder. ☁️
7️⃣ Generates RSS XML markup for a new podcast episode entry. 📰
8️⃣ Extracts title, MP3 link, and metadata for feed publishing. 🔗
9️⃣ Sends a Slack notification that the new episode is ready. 💬
🔟 Outputs episode URL and metadata for further automations. 🔁

⭐ Key Benefits
✅ Automatically turns written blog content into high-quality audio episodes
✅ Produces natural, human-like narration using ElevenLabs
✅ Maintains consistent podcast formatting with automated script structuring
✅ Uploads finished episodes directly to Google Drive for distribution
✅ Generates ready-to-publish RSS entries for podcast hosting
✅ Notifies your team instantly when new episodes go live
✅ Saves time for marketing, content, and podcast production teams

🧩 Features
RSS feed triggering and content ingestion
Azure OpenAI GPT-4o script rewriting
Structured JSON output parser for stable results
ElevenLabs text-to-speech generation
Google Drive MP3 upload
Automated RSS feed item builder
Slack notifications for episode release
Batch processing for multiple new posts
Consistent schedule-based automation

🔐 Requirements
Azure OpenAI API credentials (GPT-4o)
ElevenLabs API key
Google Drive OAuth2 credentials
Slack API token
Public or private RSS feed URL
Configured Google Drive folder for MP3 storage

🎯 Target Audience
Content teams repurposing blog posts into audio
Podcasters wanting automated episode creation
Marketing and media companies scaling content
Creators expanding into multi-format distribution
Teams using blogs as primary input for podcasts