Newsletter -> Audio Generator
Objective: This automation system was designed to summarize daily newsletters and convert them into audio files using AI, allowing users to listen to their newsletters instead of reading them. It’s a powerful productivity tool that turns overwhelming email content into bite-sized audio summaries for on-the-go consumption.
Details
Tools Used:
  • Make.com: For automation orchestration, pulling emails, processing summaries, and managing file uploads.
  • OpenAI (GPT-4): To summarize newsletter content into concise, easy-to-digest text.
  • Google Drive: For storing and sharing the final audio files.
  • Google Gmail: For retrieving emails tagged as newsletters.
  • OpenAI Text-to-Speech: To convert summarized text into high-quality MP3 audio.
Process Overview:
  1. Retrieve Newsletters: The system searches Gmail for emails labeled as “newsletter” or containing specific keywords.
  1. Summarization: The retrieved emails are summarized using GPT-4, which condenses the email into key points in a conversational tone.
  1. Text Aggregation: The system consolidates summaries of multiple newsletters into one cohesive narrative.
  1. Text-to-Speech Conversion: OpenAI’s text-to-speech functionality converts the consolidated text into an MP3 audio file.
  1. File Upload & Share: The audio file is uploaded to Google Drive, where a shareable link is generated and emailed to the user for easy access.
  1. Automation Scheduling: The process is set to run daily at a specified time to ensure that fresh newsletter summaries are delivered every morning.
Key Features:
  • Daily Automation: The system automatically runs every day, delivering the audio summaries directly to the user's inbox.
  • Multi-Newsletter Support: Capable of summarizing and consolidating multiple newsletters into one audio file.
  • Text-to-Speech Flexibility: Customizable text-to-speech output that provides a natural-sounding voice, delivering information in a clear and engaging manner.
  • Scalability: The system can easily scale to handle larger volumes of emails or integrate additional customization (e.g., language options, voice preferences).
Benefits:
  • Time-Saving: Reduces the time spent reading through lengthy newsletters by summarizing the most important points.
  • Convenience: Converts newsletters into an MP3 file, enabling users to listen to updates while commuting or multitasking.
  • Customizable: Summaries can be customized to match the user's tone preferences, ensuring the audio is engaging and relevant.
Potential Use Cases:
  • Busy professionals who receive daily updates and want to keep up with information without spending hours reading.
  • Newsletter enthusiasts who want a more efficient way to digest content from multiple sources.
  • Content repurposing: This system can be extended to summarize and convert any type of content (e.g., articles, reports, blog posts) into audio.
Outcome:
This automation was a personal productivity booster, helping users streamline newsletter consumption and improve daily efficiency. It's a versatile tool that can be tailored to various workflows and content sources.
Content Repurposing Automation Across Different Socials
This project showcases a robust and fully automated social media content syndication system designed to streamline the process of posting content across multiple platforms—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Medium. The system allows users to schedule, format, and publish content across these platforms from a single Airtable content calendar. By automating the creation, customization, and posting of content, this system saves significant time and resources, making it an ideal solution for businesses and agencies looking to optimize their social media management processes.
Details
Project Objectives:
  • Automate Cross-Platform Content Posting: Develop an automated workflow that pulls content from an Airtable calendar and posts it across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Medium, eliminating the need for manual posting.
  • Content Customization for Each Platform: Use AI to tailor content to the specific requirements and tone of each platform, ensuring that posts are optimized for maximum engagement.
  • Centralized Content Management: Enable users to manage and control all social media content from a single Airtable, making it easy to schedule and track posts across multiple platforms.
  • Scalability and Ease of Use: Design the system to be scalable, allowing businesses of any size to implement and benefit from the automation. The system should be user-friendly and easily customizable to fit specific business needs.
Key Features:
  1. Airtable Content Calendar Integration:
  • Centralized Content Hub: The system integrates with an Airtable content calendar, where users can input the date, post copy, image URL, and select the platforms for each post.
  • Automated Record Pulling: The system automatically pulls records from the Airtable based on the scheduled date, ensuring that posts go out on the correct day across the selected platforms.
  1. AI-Driven Content Customization:
  • Platform-Specific Adjustments: AI is used to adjust the content for each social media platform. For example, Twitter posts are shortened to fit character limits, LinkedIn posts are made more professional, and Instagram captions are crafted to be more visually engaging.
  • Dynamic Formatting: The AI formats the content differently for each platform, using custom rules to adhere to best practices and platform-specific conventions (e.g., hashtags on Instagram, formal tone on LinkedIn).
  1. Automated Posting Across Multiple Platforms:
  • Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Medium Integration: The system is fully integrated with these platforms, automatically posting content based on the settings in the Airtable calendar.
  • Image Handling and Upload: The system downloads and uploads images from the provided URLs, ensuring that all media is correctly formatted and posted along with the content.
  • Medium Newsletter Automation: The system can generate a Medium post in Markdown format, turning the content into a detailed newsletter-style article. The post can be automatically published or saved as a draft for further review.
  1. Customizable Workflow and Scheduling:
  • Daily Scheduled Posting: The automation can be set to run daily, posting content that is scheduled for that day. This ensures that content is always published on time without manual intervention.
  • Flexible Content Scheduling: The Airtable content calendar allows for easy scheduling and rescheduling of posts, giving users full control over when and where content is published.
Use Cases:
  • Agencies: Offer automated social media management services to clients, freeing up time for strategic tasks while maintaining high-quality content output.
  • Marketing Teams: Centralize content management and automate posting, ensuring consistent branding and messaging across all social media channels.
  • Content Creators: Streamline the process of sharing content across multiple platforms, allowing more time to focus on content creation and audience engagement.
Scalability and Customization:
  • Scalable for Any Business Size: The system can be scaled to manage content for small businesses as well as large enterprises with multiple social media accounts and a high volume of posts.
  • Easily Customizable: Users can customize the AI prompts, formatting rules, and posting schedules to align with their brand voice and social media strategy.
Conclusion:
This social media content syndication automation system offers a powerful solution for businesses looking to optimize their social media management. By automating the content creation, customization, and posting processes, the system not only saves time but also ensures that content is tailored to each platform's unique requirements. Whether used by agencies, marketing teams, or individual content creators, this system provides a scalable, efficient, and effective way to manage social media content across multiple platforms.
AI Content Generation System
Youtube to Blog Post Automation
In this project I focused on the development and implementation of an advanced content repurposing system designed to convert YouTube videos into high-quality blog posts. The system is built using Make.com and leverages AI-driven transcription and content generation, making it a powerful tool for content creators and marketers looking to maximize the utility of their video content.
Details
Automated Video-to-Text Conversion:
  • YouTube Video Scraping: The system begins by scraping YouTube for videos based on specific search terms. Utilizing the APIFY platform, the system can fetch video URLs, titles, descriptions, and subtitles, which are essential for the subsequent transcription process.
  • Subtitles Extraction: If available, the system automatically extracts subtitles directly from YouTube videos. This step eliminates the need for additional transcription tools, speeding up the content repurposing process.
  • AI-Powered Transcription: For videos without accurate subtitles, the system uses OpenAI's Whisper model to transcribe audio content into text, ensuring a high degree of accuracy and quality.
Content Generation and Optimization:
  • AI-Driven Blog Post Creation: The transcribed text or extracted subtitles are fed into OpenAI’s GPT model, which is tasked with transforming the raw transcript into a well-structured blog post. The AI is guided by a specific system prompt to ensure the blog post is comprehensive, engaging, and formatted in Markdown ATX style.
  • Customizable Tone and Style: The system is designed to be adaptable, allowing for the customization of the tone and style of the generated content. Whether the content needs to be casual, professional, or somewhere in between, the AI can be instructed to match the desired voice.
  • Markdown to HTML Conversion: To ensure the content is ready for publishing, the system converts the Markdown-formatted blog post into HTML, which can then be easily inserted into any content management system (CMS).
Output and Integration:
  • Google Docs Integration: The final blog post is automatically generated as a Google Doc, making it easy to review, edit, and publish. The document can be stored in a specified Google Drive folder for easy access and collaboration.
  • Scalable Workflow: The system is designed to handle multiple videos simultaneously, making it highly scalable for users with large content libraries. By adjusting the input parameters, users can automate the generation of blog posts from a virtually unlimited number of videos.
  • Content Curation: The system can be configured to run continuously, pulling new content based on trending topics or specific keywords. This makes it an invaluable tool for content creators aiming to stay ahead of industry trends.
Customization and Flexibility:
  • Advanced Content Editing: While the system automates most of the content creation process, it also allows for human intervention. Editors can review and refine the AI-generated content to ensure it meets the highest standards of quality and relevance.
  • Template-Based Formatting: Users can implement template-based formatting for the Google Docs, ensuring that each blog post adheres to the brand’s style guide without manual formatting.
High ROI and Efficiency:
  • Cost-Effective Content Creation: By automating the transcription and content generation process, this system significantly reduces the time and cost associated with traditional content creation methods. The system allows for the rapid production of content at a fraction of the cost, while still maintaining high quality.
  • SEO and Engagement: The content generated by the system is optimized for search engines and engagement. By producing relevant, timely, and well-structured blog posts, the system helps increase website traffic and reader engagement, contributing to overall business growth.
Use Cases:
  • Content Creators: Ideal for YouTube creators who want to repurpose their video content into written form, extending the reach and impact of their content.
  • Marketing Agencies: Agencies can use this system to quickly generate blog posts for clients, repurposing video content into SEO-friendly articles.
  • Businesses with Content Strategies: Companies with a strong focus on content marketing can leverage this system to maintain a steady flow of high-quality blog posts, keeping their audience engaged without overburdening their content teams.
Conclusion: This content repurposing system exemplifies how AI and automation can be leveraged to create high-quality content efficiently. By converting video content into blog posts, this system not only saves time and resources but also ensures that valuable video content reaches a wider audience through multiple formats. Whether for individual creators or large marketing teams, this system provides a scalable, customizable solution for modern content needs.
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