Radio Bulletin

Radio Bulletin turns a post’s content into a short, spoken news bulletin. The AI first rewrites your post into a compact text suitable for reading aloud; a text-to-speech service then turns that text into an MP3 file. You can still manually adjust the in-between text with speech markup (SSML) before generating the audio.

Generating a bulletin

Click “Radio bulletin genereren” (Generate radio bulletin). The AI rewrites your post into a short item, with the guideline that reading it aloud shouldn’t take more than roughly 30 seconds — this is an instruction given to the AI, not a hard limit; the actual length of the result can deviate from it.

Editing the text with SSML

After generating, a text editor appears using SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language), which lets you refine the speech: pauses, pitch, speed, volume, and emphasis. Changes are saved automatically as you type.

Three buttons insert commonly used markup:

• <prosody> — adjust speed, pitch, and volume.
• <break> — insert a pause.
• <emphasis> — emphasize a word or phrase.

There’s also an info button with examples of this markup — these examples are valid SSML, so you can use them literally as a starting point. For example:

<prosody rate="slow" pitch="low" volume="x-loud">
  This is spoken slowly, low, and loud.
</prosody>

Hello there! <break time="1s"/> How are you doing?

<emphasis level="strong">Important</emphasis>: make sure you remember this.

Setting the pronunciation of a specific word

Select a word in the text and a separate panel appears to add a so-called phoneme tag: this lets you force a specific pronunciation for a word the voice would otherwise mispronounce (for example a name or technical term). For the word “university”, for example, you’d look up ˈjuːnɪˌvɜrsɪti yourself as the phonetic spelling, which produces the tag <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="ˈjuːnɪˌvɜrsɪti">university</phoneme> in the text.

Generating and listening to the audio

Click “Genereer audio” (Generate audio) to turn the current text into an MP3 and listen to it immediately via the built-in audio player. You can regenerate the audio after adjusting the text (“Hergenereer audio” / Regenerate audio).

Deleting

A “Radio bulletin verwijderen” (Delete radio bulletin) button removes the entire bulletin (text and audio) from this post; this can’t be undone. You have to confirm this in a pop-up before the deletion goes through.