1. Introduction

Pro-ShortNews is designed for the busy individual. Simply add your RSS of choice to read or listen to the summarized news articles.

2. Dependencies:

• Ollama installation required.
• PiperTTS and gemma:2b llm model are installed using the provided installation script.

3. Features:

• Crawl news from RSS source.
• Utilize Ollama to summarize news articles.
• Generate audio with PiperTTS from the summarized text.
• Store summaries and audio in a SQLite database.
• Add/Delete chosen news sources.
• View full articles and listen to audio.
• Short news with autoplay.

4. Language Support:

• English and Vietnamese currently supported.

5. Installation:

• First, install Ollama then follow the instructions based on your operating system:

  • Linux: Run the install.sh script. When complete, run short_news.bin

  • Windows: Run the install.bat script. Upon completion, run short_news.exe

  • Browser opens with https://localhost:8000 for the app

• Note: Pro-ShortNews currently reserves port 8000 (may be addressed in future updates). Please refer to the system requirements for the gemma:2b model before installation, as the q4_0 version is in use.

6. Tech-stack:

• Backend API is built using net/http std lib in golang, gofeed library for crawling RSS feeds, goquery for crawling article data, and go-sqlite3 for the SQLite database.
• Front-end is built with Svelte as a single page app.
• Langchain and Ollama for calling the gemma:2b model.
• PiperTTS binary and CLI execution used for audio output.