📰 AI News Video Generator

Turn real-time news into short, shareable news videos — fully automated with AI.

🚀 About the Project

This project takes a current news headline and:

1. Generates a professional video script using an LLM.
2. Adds catchy, attention-grabbing lines.
3. Converts the script to audio using Azure TTS.
4. Generates a short video with dynamic overlays.

All of this happens in a single click — and runs on an Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine server or your own Local Machine.

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⚙️ Features

• 🔍 Real-time news scraping
• 🧠 LLM-generated script and catchy one-liners
• 🎤 Azure-based text-to-speech synthesis
• 🎬 Dynamic video generation with MoviePy
• 🌐 Python Flask web interface

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📦 Tech Stack

• Python
• Flask (Web Framework)
• Azure Cognitive Services (Text-to-Speech)
• MoviePy (Video generation)
• LLM APIs (DeepSeek, LM Studio, or OpenAI compatible)
• Bootstrap + HTML (Frontend)

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📁 Folder Structure

video_generation_tool/
│
├── app.py                         # Main Flask app
├── news_scraping.py              # Fetches latest news
├── generate_script.py            # Script generation using LLM
├── generate_catchy_lines.py      # One-liner generation
├── convert_text_to_speech.py     # Azure TTS integration
├── video_generation.py           # Video creation logic
├── templates/
│   ├── index.html
│   └── video.html
├── static/
│   └── videos/
├── .env                          # Stores API keys (not pushed)
|── assets/                       # Handles images stored in Readme.md file
└── requirements.txt              # List of all dependencies of the project

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🛠️ Setup Instructions

1. Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/akshatkhatri/video_generation_tool.git
cd video_generation_tool

2. Create a Virtual Environment

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Configure API Keys

Create a .env file in the root with your keys:

API_KEY=your_news_api_key
SPEECH_KEY=your_azure_speech_key
SERVICE_REGION=your_azure_region

5. Run the App

python app.py

Visit http://127.0.0.1:5000 in your browser.

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🧠 Model Config (LLM)

The app uses a local or hosted LLM to generate scripts. You can:

• Connect it to LM Studio, OpenRouter, or DeepSeek API
• Set your LLM endpoint inside relevant script generation files

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🖼 Example Output

• News video with voiceover and animated text overlay
• Stored in static/videos/final_video_with_generated_text_overlay.mp4

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💡 Future Improvements

• Category-based video templates
• Support for multiple languages
• User-uploaded custom text

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🤝 Contributing

PRs and suggestions are welcome!
Just fork, commit your changes, and open a pull request.

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📄 License

MIT License