Setup & Installation
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill podcast-generation
https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/podcast-generation
View on GitHubWhat This Skill Does
Connects a React frontend to a Python FastAPI backend over WebSocket to generate spoken audio from text using Azure OpenAI's GPT Realtime Mini model. Takes a text prompt, streams PCM audio chunks, converts them to WAV, and returns base64-encoded audio for browser playback. Includes transcript output alongside the audio.
Handles the full WebSocket session lifecycle, PCM-to-WAV conversion, and base64 transport in one reference implementation, saving the integration work you'd otherwise do by reading scattered Azure docs.
When to use it
- Generating narrated audio summaries from article or blog content
- Building a podcast episode from a written script without a recording studio
- Adding text-to-audio playback to a documentation site
- Producing audio previews of product descriptions or release notes
- Prototyping voice-driven features backed by Azure OpenAI Realtime API