Building Wet Toast Talk Radio — Part 1

<h1>Origin Story</h1> <p>I love GTA V&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhCFJnaYvnI" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">West Coast Talk Radio</a>. I miss cruising around Los Santos for hours with Lazlow and Michele bickering in my ears, or Dr. Ray ranting about everything and nothing. If I had a penny for every time someone online said &ldquo;that should be a real radio station&rdquo;&hellip; but why isn&rsquo;t it a real radio station? It&rsquo;s 2023, we have LLMs that can pass the bar exam, and Text-to-Speech that sounds freakishly realistic. How hard can it be to generate a parody internet radio?</p> <p>I discussed this with my brother, Raphael, who is also nostalgic about Rockstar&rsquo;s talk shows and happens to be an excellent software engineer. And thus the concept behind Wet Toast Talk Radio was born. We agreed on two main product requirements:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Wet Toast Talk Radio is actually funny.</strong>&nbsp;Not just &ldquo;funny because it&rsquo;s an AI&rdquo;.</li> <li><strong>Wet Toast Talk Radio doesn&rsquo;t do reruns.</strong>&nbsp;All content is newly generated (except in case of failure).</li> </ul> <p>And two technical requirements:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Wet Toast Talk Radio is cheap</strong>. We are self-funded.</li> <li><strong>Wet Toast Talk Radio is simple</strong>. Did we mention we are self-funded?</li> </ul> <p>We then identified three main systems to design:&nbsp;<em>script generation</em>,&nbsp;<em>audio generation</em>, and&nbsp;<em>radio streaming.</em></p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@camille.vanhoffelen/building-wet-toast-talk-radio-part-1-c44677887238"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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