Webhook to extract news from an RSS feed, summarize them with ChatGPT, and play them through a Home Assistant speaker

Catch up on the latest headlines while you make coffee. Summarized, simplified, and played through your Home Assistant speaker—hands-free, mind at ease.

Staying informed is exhausting when it means constantly opening news sites, sifting through endless articles, then carving out “reading time” every day—often at the expense of more important tasks. Missing updates or falling behind is frustrating, and wasted hours add up quickly, especially when all you want is a short, clear summary in your daily routine. Without automation, you risk wasting precious time, missing out on relevant news, or just letting your Home Assistant speaker gather dust instead of keeping you effortlessly in the loop.

This formula empowers you to automate the entire process: with just a voice command or click, it grabs the latest headlines from any RSS feed, summarizes the news into a natural, easy-to-listen script with ChatGPT, and instantly delivers it through your Home Assistant-connected speaker. Forget about scrolling, skimming, or filtering by hand—now your smart speaker acts as your own personal news broadcaster, offering a snappy overview tailored for speech. You can customize how often it runs, which feeds it checks, and trigger it by webhook for total control.

Ready to transform your mornings and reclaim your time? Follow the simple step-by-step guide to set up this formula, or jump straight in with the ready-made Botize automation. All that’s left is to sit back, listen, and stay ahead—no news feed fatigue required.

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Get the News Spoken to You, Instantly

Here’s the magic: say your trigger phrase, and—boom—your speaker reads out a crisp, engaging round-up of the latest stories from your favorite news feed. No techy hoops. No digging through articles. Just news, automatically tailored and narrated for you by ChatGPT, then broadcast through your Home Assistant speaker. Your mornings (and mind) never felt so liberated.

	Manual	Botize
Finding latest articles from several sites	8 min	0 Minutes
Reading, distilling, and summarizing those articles	10 min	0 Minutes
Dictating or typing a summary in natural speech style	5 min	0 Minutes
Broadcasting or setting up the speaker manually	3 min	0 Minutes
Total	26 min	0 Minutes

You just found EXACTLY what you need: skip reading, skip setups—get your news updates delivered out loud at your signal. No more endless scrolling, just pure essentials, in your space, when you want.

Get My News, My Way

Morning Wake-Up Routine

Set Home Assistant to trigger the summary every morning at 7am. Enjoy your coffee as the day’s headlines are spoken to you while you wake up.

Hands-Free News

Start your day informed without touching a thing.

Effortless Updates

No more doomscrolling—you get summaries that matter.

Ultra Customizable

Pick feeds, tweak voice, even change how it’s triggered.

Voice Command Catch-Up

Need a midday update? Just say your chosen phrase (“Give me the news!”) and the speaker brings you up to speed, so you don’t get lost in the noise.

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⌾︎ You want quick news fixes while multitasking—cooking, driving, working out.

⌾︎ You use Home Assistant or smart speakers and crave an efficient morning routine.

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✕ You enjoy reading every news article in full detail yourself.

✕ You don’t use (or want) smart home devices or automation.

✓ Choose ANY RSS feed for the kind of news you love—technology, sports, politics, local, you name it.

✓ Adjust the trigger: set it for a scheduled time, a voice command, or even a smart button press.

✓ Select the TTS (text-to-speech) voice that fits your vibe, or change playback speakers to match your room and routine.

Stop Wasting Time Reading—Listen Instead

This automation creates a webhook URL that can be called from external systems. When the webhook is triggered, the task retrieves the latest news from an RSS feed, summarizes the content using ChatGPT, and sends the resulting narration to the speaker connected to your Home Assistant system. For example, you can connect a voice command in Home Assistant so that when you say a specific phrase, Home Assistant calls the Botize webhook and the news summary is immediately generated and played through the speaker.