Building Wet Toast Talk Radio — Part 1
<h1>Origin Story</h1>
<p>I love GTA V’s <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 “that should be a real radio station”… but why isn’t it a real radio station? It’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’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>
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<li><strong>Wet Toast Talk Radio is actually funny.</strong> Not just “funny because it’s an AI”.</li>
<li><strong>Wet Toast Talk Radio doesn’t do reruns.</strong> All content is newly generated (except in case of failure).</li>
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<p>And two technical requirements:</p>
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<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>
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<p>We then identified three main systems to design: <em>script generation</em>, <em>audio generation</em>, and <em>radio streaming.</em></p>
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