DPO Reader

Turn Discourse threads into podcasts. Each author gets their own voice.

I built this because I got tired of skimming long forum threads. Point it at any Discourse URL and it synthesizes the whole thing with different voices for each participant. Listen while doing other things.

Quick Start

uv tool install dpo-reader

dpo-reader listen "https://discuss.python.org/t/your-thread"

dpo-reader listen "https://discuss.python.org/t/your-thread" --ui

Example Output

DPO Reader - Discourse to Audio

✓ Loaded: PEP 772: Packaging Council governance process (Round 3)
  Posts: 102 | Authors: 19
  Engine: openai

                Voice Assignments
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Author       ┃ Posts ┃ Voice                  ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ barry        │    21 │ Voice A (deeper tone)  │
│ pf_moore     │    20 │ Voice B (mid-range)    │
│ pradyunsg    │    10 │ Voice C (higher pitch) │
│ AA-Turner    │     7 │ Voice D (energetic)    │
│ tim.one      │     6 │ Voice E (calm)         │
│ jezdez       │     6 │ Voice F (gravelly)     │
│ dstufft      │     5 │ Voice G (brighter)     │
│ bernatgabor  │     5 │ Voice H (neutral)      │
│ willingc     │     5 │ Voice I (clear)        │
│ notatallshaw │     3 │ Voice J (relaxed)      │
│ trobitaille  │     3 │ Voice A (deeper tone)  │
│ sirosen      │     2 │ Voice B (mid-range)    │
│ hugovk       │     2 │ Voice C (higher pitch) │
│ rgommers     │     2 │ Voice D (energetic)    │
│ ncoghlan     │     1 │ Voice E (calm)         │
│ brettcannon  │     1 │ Voice F (gravelly)     │
│ steve.dower  │     1 │ Voice G (brighter)     │
│ BrenBarn     │     1 │ Voice H (neutral)      │
│ h-vetinari   │     1 │ Voice I (clear)        │
└──────────────┴───────┴────────────────────────┘

Launching player (generating audio in background)...

Features

  • Multi-voice synthesis - Each author gets assigned a unique voice

  • Three TTS engines - OpenAI (best quality), Bark (local, neural), Piper (fast, CPU-only)

  • Start anywhere - Jump to any post number via URL or -s flag

  • Interactive TUI - Real-time read-along with playback controls

  • Web UI - Browser-based player using Web Speech API

  • Caching - Resume interrupted generations

Contents

Installation

uv tool install dpo-reader

pipx install dpo-reader

uv pip install dpo-reader[piper]

License

MIT