Podcast Generation

by microsoft

Podcast Generation is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in skills.

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Install Podcast Generation

Copy Podcast Generation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/skills/podcast-generation ~/.claude/skills/podcast-generation

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .github/skills/podcast-generation/SKILL.md in microsoft/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/podcast-generation
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Podcast Generation does

Podcast Generation generates AI-powered podcast-style audio narratives using Azure OpenAI's GPT Realtime Mini model via WebSocket. Use it when building text-to-speech features, audio narrative generation, or podcast creation from content.

Podcast Generation is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Podcast Generation comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents, azure, foundry and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Podcast Generation with GPT Realtime Mini

Generate real audio narratives from text content using Azure OpenAI's Realtime API.

Quick Start

Configure environment variables for Realtime API
Connect via WebSocket to Azure OpenAI Realtime endpoint
Send text prompt, collect PCM audio chunks + transcript
Convert PCM to WAV format
Return base64-encoded audio to frontend for playback

Environment Configuration

AZURE_OPENAI_AUDIO_API_KEY=your_realtime_api_key
AZURE_OPENAI_AUDIO_ENDPOINT=https://your-resource.cognitiveservices.azure.com
AZURE_OPENAI_AUDIO_DEPLOYMENT=gpt-realtime-mini

Note: Endpoint should NOT include /openai/v1/ - just the base URL.

Core Workflow

Backend Audio Generation

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Podcast Generation

What else does microsoft publish alongside Podcast Generation?
Podcast Generation is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Application Insights Web, Azure AI Agents Persistent .NET and Azure AI Document Intelligence .NET. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Podcast Generation does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/skills page.
How does Podcast Generation compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Podcast Generation ranks #714 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Podcast Generation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.