YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by automated bots

Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by pizzapill on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:42AM (#16829414)

I've seen those videos around for a few years now. Altough the one linked in the article is of a high quality (relatively speaking). Does anybody know how to create those? I tried it with FFmpeg and espeak but never actually got anywhere fast.

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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by zootam on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:54AM (#16829482)

1. set up scrapers to get the filler content- text and video/audio

2. read text using text to speech, produce audio file

3. use a library like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/moviepy to combine them

4. auto upload to youtube

5. profit!

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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by laythea on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:14AM (#16830723)

Its more like:

1. hope and dream of success

2. set up scrapers to get the filler content- text and video/audio

3. read text using text to speech, produce audio file

4. use a library like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/moviepy to combine them

5. auto upload to youtube

6. get depressed when you realise nobody wants to listen to a computer speak.

7. go back to day job

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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by Theodores on Friday April 13, 2018 @10:56AM (#16830550)

I think you should make one that reads HN comment threads and extrapolates the video aspect from there.

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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by iggg on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:59AM (#16829529)

I ran one of those for awhile for fun. I stopped after the demonetization epidemic where every video got demonetized.

You can do a lot with ffmpeg.

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