Date: September 2022
Skills: Python, Youtube API, Amazon Polly (Text-to-Speech), Web scrapping, Ability to work independently and project management
(Personal project)
This project builds upon the work of our previous project, Liryc Karaoke/KMCAL Karaoke . We recommend visiting that page before proceeding further.
After KMCAL Karaoke and Liryc Karaoke, I wanted to create a fully autonomous channel that I wouldn't have to manage after its creation. This was not possible with the previous channels, which required at least a link to the desired music. Additionally, I thought that like me, many people would enjoy listening to the Bible every day instead of reading it. Furthermore, a liturgical calendar defines specific texts for each day, available in French on the AEFL website. So, I created a new automation inspired by the one used for creating karaoke videos to retrieve the daily texts via web scraping, read them using Amazon's "Polly" neural voice "Lea", and associate them with an image using the libraries used by the previous project. This video is then published via the Youtube API for the following day. Each time I start my computer, the script is executed, it checks if the videos have already been published for the next day, and publishes them after creating them if they are not already published.
Following the success of this project, my plan is to launch both an English and Spanish version in the coming months and the Tamil version will be launched as soon as a neuronal voice is available in this language. However, I have decided not to expand to additional languages in order to avoid the possibility of inadvertently including erroneous information that could spark religious controversies, particularly regarding content that I can't understand without a translation app.