Daily RSS news briefing spoken through Home Assistant
Start your day with a personalized news summary—spoken aloud in your home, just for you.
Keeping up with daily news is exhausting—browsing multiple sites, reading lengthy articles, and filtering through irrelevant content just to stay informed. It eats into precious time every morning and risks leaving you feeling out of the loop if you miss a day. Without automating this routine, you either compromise on being informed or sacrifice productive hours, all while missing the consistent edge that curated, up-to-date news can bring.
This formula takes the pain away by automatically extracting fresh news from your chosen RSS feed every day, summarizing the most important stories with ChatGPT, and playing a natural spoken version on your Home Assistant speakers at your preferred time. You control how often it runs, what time it plays, your time zone, and which news sources it tracks—delivering a smooth, personalized news briefing each day with zero extra effort. It's a complete shift from information overload and manual browsing to hands-free, tailored updates spoken right into your kitchen or living room.
Ready to save time, feel more connected, and turn your Home Assistant into your own personal news anchor? Follow the simple steps to set up this formula or jump right in with the ready-made Botize automation and customize it to fit your routine perfectly. Tomorrow, let the news come to you!
Automate this task with 4 simple prompts
Copy and paste the following prompts into Botize's AI task editor
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Access the Botize automated task editor.
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Select the AI editing tool.
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Create a step that triggers this automation to run at your chosen time and frequency, such as once every morning.
Copy and paste this prompt into the AI editing tool.
Set up the automation to run automatically every day at your preferred time in your time zone. ⤵
Click the 'Apply this task' button to confirm.
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Add a step to retrieve the latest news articles from your chosen RSS feed and convert the content into Markdown format for easier processing.
Copy and paste this prompt into the AI editing tool.
Fetch the latest news from the specified RSS feed URL and convert the articles into Markdown format. ⤵
Click the 'Apply this task' button to confirm.
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Now, let's summarize the main news stories using ChatGPT, making sure the results are suitable for listening as a spoken news briefing.
Copy and paste this prompt into the AI editing tool.
Summarize the main news from the provided Markdown file, writing in a friendly and clear style that sounds natural when read aloud. Create a short narration (about 2-3 minutes long) with smooth transitions, avoiding lists, links, or formatting—just a spoken news update anyone can listen to. ⤵
Click the 'Apply this task' button to confirm.
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Finally, play the summarized news briefing aloud using your Home Assistant’s connected speaker.
Copy and paste this prompt into the AI editing tool.
Take the summarized news text and play it aloud through the Home Assistant speaker using text-to-speech. ⤵
Click the 'Apply this task' button to confirm.
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Your automation is ready to use. Click the 'Save changes' button.
Save changes
Wake Up To News, Not Notifications
Imagine this: you set your preferred news feed, choose when you want your briefing, and… voilà! Every morning, your Home Assistant speaker greets you with a summarized rundown of the latest stories, written in a way that’s easy to follow and actually sounds human, not robotic. No more information overload or scrolling through headlines — just the news you care about, spoken aloud while you make coffee or get ready.
| Manual | Botize | |
|---|---|---|
| Open news app, scan headlines | 5 | 0 Minutes |
| Click and skim multiple articles | 12 | 0 Minutes |
| Summarize info in own words | 8 | 0 Minutes |
| Read or share aloud | 5 | 0 Minutes |
| Total | 30 | 0 Minutes |
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⌾︎ You want a smoother, screen-free morning routine.
⌾︎ You already use Home Assistant and crave a more personal smart home experience.
✕ You only trust paper newspapers or love doomscrolling in bed.
✕ You don’t use Home Assistant or smart speakers at home.
✓ Pick any RSS feed — local sports, world politics, niche blogs, you name it.
✓ Set the exact days and times for your news, so it fits your lifestyle.
✓ Choose your Home Assistant speaker or even select the voice that reads your roundup.
This automation extracts the latest news from an RSS feed, summarizes the content using ChatGPT, and plays the summary through the speaker connected to your Home Assistant system. To use this automation, you will need to customize: The frequency at which the task should run, the time of day when it should be triggered, your time zone and the URL of the RSS feed containing the news you want to summarize. Once configured, the system will automatically generate a spoken news briefing from the feed and play it through your Home Assistant speaker.
