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Photo-to-Story AI Pipeline

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A small, self-contained project idea: take a photo of an everyday object and turn it into a short story with AI. Expand gradually with illustration, audio, a small website, and a podcast feed. Great for experimenting with multimodal pipelines (vision, text, speech) and sharing with kids, family, or friends.

December 15, 20251 min readbeginner
multimodalvisiontext-to-speechpodcastcreative

A fun, holiday-friendly project to try in a week: build a photo-to-story AI pipeline.

Start simple: take a photo of an everyday object and use an AI model to generate a short story from it. From there, you can expand step by step:

  • Add an illustration (image generation from the story or the photo)
  • Generate audio (text-to-speech)
  • Publish on a small website
  • Share as a podcast feed (RSS)

You can also explore other directions: text-to-text variations, speech-to-text, or different output formats. Use your creativity: it's a practical way to experiment with multimodal projects (vision, text, and speech) in one pipeline.

Alexey built a full version of this idea: Kids Horror Stories. Photo in, story + illustration + narration out, published on the web and as a Spotify podcast. You can read the architecture and implementation in the blog post below.

How I built an automated image-to-podcast pipeline · Kids Horror Stories (GitHub)