How we built a fully automated Asian tech news pipeline with AI
Most of the world's most interesting tech news originates in Asia — and most of it never makes it to English-speaking audiences.
We built AsiafeedTech to fix that.
What it does
Every 8 hours, our system:
- Ingests 25+ RSS feeds from China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia
- Translates and filters content using Gemini AI
- Scores each article for viral potential (AI score + category weighting)
- Surfaces only the best stories at asiafeedtech.com
The video pipeline
The top articles don't just become text posts — they become short-form videos, fully automated:
- Gemini generates a YouTube script
- Gemini TTS produces the voiceover
- Pexels clips are sourced based on article context
- FFmpeg assembles the 9:16 video
- Whisper burns in captions
- Branding overlay is applied
- Upload to YouTube
The interesting engineering challenge: making a multi-step AI pipeline reliable, where quality compounds (or degrades) at each stage.
We'll be writing more about the architecture soon.
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