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# How I built a fully automated Asian tech news pipeline with AI

Most Western developers have no idea what's happening in Asian tech. Not because nothing's happening — quite the opposite. The problem is the language barrier.

So I built AsiafeedTech: a fully automated pipeline that ingests, translates, scores, and turns Asian tech news into YouTube Shorts — without any human intervention.

Here's how it works:

The Pipeline

1. RSS Ingestion
25+ sources from China, Japan, Korea and SEA. Runs 3x daily via Spring Boot scheduler.

2. AI Translation & Filtering
Each article goes through Gemini with a carefully crafted prompt that translates, categorises, detects sponsored content, and filters non-tech articles in one call.

3. Viral Scoring
Gemini scores each article 1-10. We add category bonuses (AI +3, EV +2, Robotics +2) to surface the most relevant stories.

4. YouTube Shorts Generation
Top articles → Gemini script → Gemini TTS → Imagen 4.0 images → FFmpeg assembly → Whisper captions → YouTube upload.

The hardest part was getting consistent quality at every step. Each AI call needs precise prompting, output validation, and fallback logic.

Full writeup coming soon. Live at: https://asiafeedtech.com

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