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Low-Bandwidth Audio News

Daily local news as tiny audio files in regional languages.

Intermediate14h1–2 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Low-Bandwidth Audio News for rural listeners with slow connections in ~14h with 1–2 people. Stack: LLM + TTS + Next.js.

Why it wins: Inclusive information access.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Text news excludes low-literacy users and video needs data.
02 · Solution
Summarise local news, translate, generate compressed audio and deliver via a light web app or IVR.
03 · Build
  1. 1Collect news
  2. 2Summarise
  3. 3Generate audio
  4. 4Deliver
04 · Demo
Play today's bulletin on a throttled connection.

MVP checklist

  • Summaries
  • Translation
  • Compressed audio
  • IVR option

Tech stack

TechRole
LLMLanguage model
TTSText-to-speech
Next.jsFrontend + API routes

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