General Player Settings

The general settings let you name the player and select some of the global config options. Let’s go over each field to understand what each feature is for.

Player Skins

The general settings let you name the player and select some of the global config options. Let’s go over each field to understand what each feature is for.

Player Controls

The Player Controls section lets you show or hide player elements such as the "Station Logo," "Station Name," "Current Track Information," and "Stream Status" that are to be displayed on your player. Note that you have a choice to customize these for Desktop web browsers separately from Mobile device web browsers. Yes, we treat the same player differently when it loads on a Desktop computer web browser and differently when it loads on a mobile phone browser. This is good; it gives you more control over your players on different devices. Click the "Controls" tab to open the Player Controls panel.

Player Appearance

The Appearance section describes itself in its functionality. Let’s go over all options.

“Radio Format” drop down:

Before you start adding the content, you need to understand what type of radio you are running. The Broadcast Settings page lets you enable and disable certain features. This way you can tell AI Radio Bot which content to stream and which content to ignore, even if you have that content uploaded for streaming. These are more global features. There are also ways to enable or disable each piece of content separately in their own sections of the AI Radio Studio.

The First field you see right away is: "Radio Format." Field has three options: Auto, Talk Radio, Music Radio and Custom. If you leave option Auto, bot will choose the correct format for you. As we are trying to automate as much as possible of what's normally manually done on radio stations, we still decided to provide you with options to force AI Radio Bot to use your desired format, in case the mode Auto doesn’t select the format you need.

Auto Radio Format mode will analyze your content and if you have more text content uploaded than music, then it will default to Talk Radio format, while if you have more music than text content, then format will be the Music Radio format. Based on the format, bot will choose at what frequency, talk content versus music content should be broadcasted and in what order. For talk radio, AI Radio Bot will emphasize the talk content more and insert music only here and there to break up the talk alone. While if you choose Music Radio format, bot will broadcast more music, with talk content inserted here and there.

If you have more text content uploaded than music, but you still want your radio to be ran as the music radio, where music will be played back more frequently than talk content, then select the option Music Radio. It will force the AI Radio Bot to run your station, using Music Radio format.

The same goes for Talk Radio format. If you have lots of music uploaded and some text or talk podcast audio, but you want text to be read or podcasts played more often as per Talk Radio format, then please select option "Talk Radio" and Save. That will force AI Radio Bot to run your radio as talk radio and emphasize the talk content over music content.

Now, the options Talk Radio and Music Radio use the predefined schema that guides AI Radio Bot to determine what type of content it should broadcast next. But we also added an option "Custom". If you select option "Custom", then you would need to click the sub-menu item: "Custom Format Editor", which lets you create your own schema. This way, you can select exactly what type of content you would want AI Radio Bot to stream at the top of the hour and at the bottom of the hour. It won't let you choose exactly which files to play; for that, please use our "Playlists" feature. But it will let you choose, let's say, to play music at the beginning of the hour, then an article, then an ad, and so on. We describe the specifics about the "Custom Format Editor" in the next paragraph.

“Insert AI Voiced Text Articles” and “Insert Custom Audio” toggle buttons:

The next two important options to learn about: "Insert AI Voiced Text Articles," and a little lower: the "Insert Custom Audio." Why did we bring them up together? Let us first explain the difference between the "AI Voiced Text Articles" and "Custom Audio". AI Radio Bot lets you post text articles, which AI Radio Bot will read for you on air. However, AI Radio Bot also lets you upload your own talk content pre-recorded in MP3 format. This was done in case you would like to run your talk radio just as you were used to before, or maybe you already have pre-recorded podcasts, which you would like to broadcast in the mix with text article voiceover generated by AI Radio Bot. Or maybe you want to run only your own pre-recorded talk content and completely switch AI Radio Bot voiceover off. You have all the above options to choose from.

By default, the option Insert “Custom Audio” is switched off. When it is set to on, AI Radio Bot will popup the reminder for you stating: "Please click the Audio Content menu and upload audio files for enabled types of content, which you would like to be broadcasted on your radio." We will go over the "Audio Content" section later in this document. For now just remember that “Custom Audio” content type is reserved for your own pre-recorded talk content and is treated the same way as “AI Voiced Text Articles.”

By switching the Insert “AI Voiced Text Articles” option off, you will switch this feature off completely and AI Radio Bot will not playback any voiceovers of your text content. It will still prepare the voiceovers for you and you will even be able to preview as well as download them from the “Text Content” section. However with the disabled “Insert AI Voiced Text Articles” option in “Broadcast Settings”, the text voiceovers will not be aired on your radio. Again, AI Radio Bot is all about giving you full control over what goes on air of your radio stream and when, just with an AI twist to it, which automates a lot of otherwise manual tasks for you with a touch of magic.

“Randomize Articles on Air” toggle button:

Next option is "Randomize Articles on Air". Switching “Randomize Articles on Air” option on, will make AI Radio Bot to randomly choose which next article voiceover to playback on air. If switched off, then content is sorted by the date it was added in “Text Content”. In that case, the newest, freshest content gets priority to go on air first.

“Insert Music” toggle button:

Next option is "Insert Music". By default, the option “Insert Music” is checked. That instructs AI Radio Bot to playback Music content on your radio. Music is also its own type of content, which is treated uniquely by AI Radio Bot. AI Radio Bot lets you upload mp3 files and set what type of audio content it is. Each type is treated specifically to its purpose. "Custom Audio" is treated as talk content. "Music" is treated exactly as what it is, the music content. There are also Ads, Promos, Radio IDs and Stingers. Each content type is treated uniquely. We will go over each content type further in this documentation.

“Insert Music Announcement” toggle button:

Right under the option “Insert Music”, you can locate the option: "Insert Music Announcement". What is that? Each music track comes with the artist name and track title. AI Radio Bot provides you an option to specify music announcement for each track separately, and in multiple flavours. We will go over it in more detail in the "Audio Content" section of this document. In short, you can specify your own announcement for each track or you could just specify the artist name and track title and let AI Radio Bot use generative AI to generate you an announcement for each track separately. Generative AI knows a little something about known artists and can even add a short history or a fact about the artist before announcing their track. Announcements will come in the spoken form, just like a radio host on any terrestrial radio station. AI Radio Bot will automatically speak the announcement before the track and then press play on the actual musical composition right after. It's a neat feature to have, isn't it? Yeah, we like it too.

“Enable RSS” toggle button:

AI Radio Bot comes with its own feature-full RSS reader. This feature alone has a lot to it and has its own section in this documentation, which describes it in very detail. The “Enable RSS” option in “Station Settings” is the global on/off switch for this feature. If you would like to prevent AI Radio Bot from sourcing content from RSS all at once, setting the “Enable RSS” to OFF is the way to do it. To make RSS Reader work again, don’t forget to set the “Enable RSS” option back to ON and click the Save button at the bottom of the page.

“Enable Playlists” toggle button

AI Radio Bot has two ways of managing broadcast content. The Automated way, where you trust AI Radio Bot to choose what to play next. And the manual way, which gives you more control over what goes on air and when. Playlists are that manual way, which terrestrial radio hosts are used to. It still comes with a wealth of unique features, which automate certain functionality for you, but it also gives you full control over what content goes on air and when. The “Hour Clock”, which professional radio hosts are all familiar with, could be recreated, using AI Radio Bot’s unique “Playlists” feature. One very important option to know about is: “Broadcast Only The Playlists” option. We describe it in the next paragraph. “Enable Playlists” option is the global on/off switch for the entire Playlists feature. If you would like to disable Playlists all together, set this option to OFF and click Save. To re-enable this feature, set the “Enable Playlists” option to ON and click the Save button.

“Broadcast Only The Playlists” toggle button

“Broadcast Only The Playlists” option is located right under the “Enable Playlists” in “Station Settings”. What is it for? That’s why we called this feature the “Playlists”. However, we considered the so-called “Hour Clock” in mind when we were designing it. So.

a) When “Broadcast Only The Playlists” option is set to OFF, the AI Radio Bot will use its automated method to choose what goes on air and when. However, the Playlists in that case can still be used to schedule the Playlists of content, which AI Radio Bot will insert between its automated broadcasts. For that to work, Playlists will need to be scheduled by combinations of Time or Date and Time, or Day of the Week and Time. The rest of the Playlists will be ignored. That includes the unscheduled playlists and those that are scheduled by Date or Day of the Week alone, without Time specified in the schedule. The Time has to be present in the schedule. This way AI Radio Bot will know exactly at what time of the day to insert a given Playlist in between its automated broadcast.

b) When “Broadcast Only The Playlists” option is set to ON, the AI Radio Bot will disable its automated method of choosing the content and will playback only the Playlists. This way you can create unscheduled Playlists, which AI Radio Bot will randomly pick up and broadcast content from. As well as you can schedule the playlists for any combinations of Date or Day of the Week, or Time, Date and Time or Day of the Week and Time. For more details, please refer to the Playlists section further in this document.

“Insert Weather Forecast” toggle button:

Next option is: "Insert Weather Forecast". The automated weather forecast report generation feature is only available for the United States of America and Canada. By default this option is disabled. To enable it, you would need to set its toggle button to ON and click Save button at the bottom of the page. This feature will generate a weather forecast specifically for your station. It lets you also specify the list of locations in the following format: “Miami, Florida; Ontario, Canada; Denver, Colorado”. Make sure that you include city and state, or city and state and country. This way will make it easier for AI Radio Bot to locate the weather report for the provided location. Please separate each location, using the semicolon (;). If the semicolon is not present, the location won’t be picked up by AI Radio Bot. The weather forecast will go on at the beginning of each hour. Each forecast will be updated from Noon to Noon. Or when you update the list of locations. If locations are permanent, before 12 noon, AI Radio Bot will read the current date forecast. Afternoon, it will re-generate and read the updated weather forecast for that day. If data that we receive will include the forecast for more than one day, AI Radio Bot will include them in its weather report as well. In the future we are looking into making weather updates generations more frequent. This is our automated feature for weather reports. It only covers the United States of America and Canada. However, you could contact us if you have a resource from where we could read the weather for the rest of the world and we could see if we could add that to expand the reach for weather forecasts for all users. You could also use our RSS reader to source weather info from your resource. However if we do it, we will have our AI article generator to automatically summarise the weather data in a legible format suitable for radio broadcast and human ear.

Weather forecast generation form also includes fields such as:

a) Weather Forecast Language - which lets you choose which language you would like a weather forecast to be generated in.

b) Weather Forecast Voice - which lets you choose the voice to use to read the weather forecast on air. “Play Voice Sample” lets you preview the voice you selected.

c) Reading Speed - which lets you choose at what pace should the AI read your weather forecast. We defaulted it to 7, as we believe that is the best reading pace, but you are free to adjust it.

“Insert Station ID” toggle button:

Next option is: "Insert Station ID". By law, all terrestrial radio stations must announce their identification on air at the beginning of each hour. Online radio stations are not obligated to it yet. However we have added this option so that pro radio hosts could have all options, which they are used to when hosting the terrestrial AM or FM station. “Radio ID” could be uploaded as pre-recorded MP3 file in the “Audio Content” section or it could be generated from the text in the “Text Content” section of our AI Radio Studio. Just don’t forget to select the “Station ID” content type when uploading or generating the Radio ID clip. And then don't forget to set the “Insert Station ID” option to ON in Broadcast Settings. Then AI Radio Bot will air Radio ID for your station at the beginning of each hour. If you upload/generate multiple Station ID files, AI Radio Bot will randomly choose a different one for each hour. Switching "Insert Station ID" off, will prevent AI Radio Bot from airing radio identification all together. If you would like to have Radio ID broadcasted more frequently, please upload or generate it as the Promo content type.

“Insert Promos” toggle button:

Next option in the list on the Station Settings page is: "Insert Promos". Promos could also be generated in the “Text Content” section, as well as they could be uploaded in MP3 format in the "Audio Content" section of the AI Radio Bot studio. Promos are the short 15 to 30 seconds or shorter clips that advertise something of your own. Promo could, as an example, announce your radio show, which comes on on a given day at the specified time. Or it could simply be the radio id like clips, used to remind people that they are listening to your radio. When generating or uploading a promo MP3 file, select "Promo" content type. Our default Audio Content contains 3 demo promos, therefore the "Insert Promos" option is enabled by default. When enabled, AI Radio Bot will mix in promo clips into your radio's automated broadcast programming. But you could also add them to your playlists as well.

“Insert Stingers” toggle button

Stingers are the transitions between the contents. Stingers are in place to smooth the transition between let's say one article, which talked about history, to another article, which talks about space travel. This way the listener doesn't get tired from just endless talk on the radio, as well as it clarifies for listeners that your broadcast is moving from one topic of talk content to another. Stingers could come as short effects or a melody. It's also up to you how your singers should sound like. You can upload your own stingers in MP3 format in the "Audio Content" section. However AI Radio Bot provides some pre-generated stingers in our "Content Vault". We will get to "Content Vault" in detail later in this document. To give you an idea, “Content Vault” is designed to give you access to talk and music content as well as effects, which are available for you to use in your broadcasts as part of the same streaming service you receive from us. Some of Content Vault content is free, some is paid.

“Insert Ads” toggle button

Last, but not least, option in Broadcast Settings is "Insert Ads". Ads are the advertising clips for promoting your sponsors or services unrelated to your radio station. Very similar to Promos, you can generate Ad clips in the “Text Content” section as well as upload pre-recorded Ads in "Audio Content" section in MP3 format. For AI Radio Bot to playback Ad content, the "Insert Ads" option has to be switched ON in "Broadcast Settings". By default we have it enabled as we provide 3 demo ad clips as part of “Audio Content”. Switching "Insert Ads" OFF, will instruct AI Radio Bot to ignore “Ad” content type content all together.

“Published” toggle button

“Published” toggle button, lets you choose if you want AI radio Bot to air each particular article or not. If “Published” is set to ON, that means this article will get picked up by AI Radio Bot and your listeners will hear it as part of the broadcast. One other application this could be used for is if you wanted to have this article air only as part of the “User Generated Playlist”, which you can create in the Playlists section. If you run in AI Radio Bot’s “Automated Broadcast” mode, the only Playlists, which will be aired, are the ones that are scheduled by Time, Date and Time or Day of the Week and Time. Others will be ignored. So if you want Automated Broadcast to ignore a given article, but at the same time you want it to be played back as part of the scheduled User Generated Playlist, then setting a toggle for that article to OFF in “Text Content” section and adding it to the scheduled Playlist will do exactly that.

“Type” drop down menu

“Type” drop down menu contains the list of “Content Types”, which you could generate the voiceovers for. For regular talk content, you would choose option “Article”, which is the default option. However if you would like to generate a “Promo” type of the content, you will select option “Promo”. You can also generate an “Ad” or a “Station ID”. Each “Content Type” is treated differently and is aired at the different frequencies and spots. Very last section of this document “Talk and Music Radio Format Specifics” lists the Talk and Music Radio format content sequences, which AI Radio Bot uses to choose what type of content goes on air next. It can give you an idea at which order, contents will be aired on your radio each hour as part of the AI Radio Bot’s automated radio broadcast.

“Language” drop down menu

AI Radio Bot generates voiceovers in multiple languages and we are working on adding more languages. Drop down menu “Language” lists all languages that are currently supported. As soon as we add new languages, you will see them appear in this drop down menu. Default language is “American English”. Please note that voices change from language to language. Therefore when you change the language, the names in drop down “Voice” will also change.

It’s important to note, because if you had a voice selected for American English, then you change the language, voice in that case will default back to option “Random”.

“Voice” drop down menu

Each voiceover can be done, using multiple voices. We obviously support more American English voices than anything else, because we are an American organization. However we have plenty of voices for other languages as well. Each voice option in the drop down, especially for American English, contains multiple versions next to it: “Steve_v1” or “James_v2”. And in the future, we will add much more advanced voiceover functionality. We suggest you use the latest version. You can even see for yourself. If you select a name with “_v1”, the bar “Reading Speed” will disappear. That’s because our voiceover engine v1 does not support that feature. With v3, we plan to add even more features, which v2 won’t have access to.

“Reading Speed” scrollbar

“Reading Speed” option lets you choose at what pace the AI Radio Bot should read your article. We defaulted it to 7, as we believe that is the best reading pace, but you are free to adjust it.

“Background Music”

“Background Music” section provides multiple options. Clicking button “Select”

Will let you choose any music composition you have listed in your “Audio Content” section. If you had uploaded MP3 files in your “Audio Content” section, they will appear in this list. If you would like to use music from our “Content Vault”, you will first need to navigate to the “Content Vault” section. There you would select the track or multiple tracks you like. Then you will have to click the “Add to Audio Content” button. It will add those tracks into your “Audio Content” section, making them appear in the list of choices for the “Background Music” to use for your voiceovers.

Note that when you make the music selection for the background music, you will see one more “Background Music Volume” scrollbar appear right underneath it. We defaulted it to 6, because with the tracks we tested this feature with volume 6 sounded not too loud and at the same time not too quiet. However, with some tracks that are originally quieter or much lounder, you will need to adjust the volume to get to the right balance between the talk content and background music. Unfortunately, you can not hear the result in real-time yet. You would need to revoice the whole article each time you change the volume. But even that is easy. Just clicking “Edit” for the given article, then changing “Volume” and clicking the “Save” button will automatically revoice that article for you.

"Original Source Name" and "Original Source Website URL" text fields

At times, you might need to specify the Original Source Name and URL to the original authors website. Specifically for that reason, AI Radio Bot provides two additional fields: "Original Source Name" and "Original Source Website URL". Both fields are not mandatory. However if filled out, AI Radio Bot will announce those before continuing onto reading the actual article.

“Correct Grammar” and “Revise” buttons

“Correct Grammar” and “Revise” are the features, which can help you to bring your text content to that legible clarity, which you would want on your radio. Definitely the grammar is very important to make sure of, because the voiceover engine doesn’t read like humans do. If you misspell something, it can and most likely will read it incorrectly. “Revise” will attempt to rewrite your article using different verbiage. It will present you with the revised version and ask you to confirm if you like it before replacing your original text with the revised one. However, we encourage all users to backup your content to make sure you keep your original copies saved elsewhere. This way if something goes wrong, which is possible with any software, you will not lose the original of your article.

“Schedules”

Let's say you want to have your article go on air at a specific schedule. For that, please click the "Add New Schedule" button. You can see that you now have a "Schedules" section populated with more options. You can choose a variety of combinations between the date, days of the week and time. If you select the date and no time, then the article will be added to the continuing rotation on that particular date only. It will then randomly be broadcasted only on that date, but throughout the whole day. If you specify the date and time, then the article will go on air at the specified time on the specified date only and never again until you change the schedule. One thing to note is that AI Radio Bot will always let previously broadcasted content to complete and then will read the scheduled article. So let's say if you have scheduled your article to go on air at 10 o'clock in the morning, but you have a 4 minute song that started playing at 9:59 in the morning. That means, that after the song completes playing at 10:03, that is when your scheduled article will go on air.

So what if you choose the days of the week and not the date. If you select let's say Monday and Wednesday as days of the week and not specify any time, then your article will be added to the continuing rotation on Mondays and Wednesdays, every week. If you select Monday and Wednesday as days of the week and set time to let's say 3pm, then your article will go on air on Mondays and Wednesdays at 3pm, after the current content at that moment completes broadcasting.

Now press the "Add New Schedule" button multiple times. You can see that you could add multiple scheduling widgets one under the other. And that is exactly as we have designed it to work. Each scheduling for each piece of content, which has scheduling available, lets you add up to 24 of such schedule combinations. That could be used to schedule your content to go on air at the beginning of each hour on lets say Friday. Or you could schedule it to go on air at a different hour every day of the week and on a certain date it could playback 5 times throughout the day. Sky's the limit there.

Note, that between the Date and Days of the Week, only one can be selected at the time. If you set the Date, you can see that the Days of the Week form gets disabled and vice versa, if you select a Day of the Week, the Date field will get disabled.

Make sure you click “Save” after making changes to your article, but also note that if you click the “Save” button after making even minor changes to the fields of the article, it will revoice. If you don’t want it to revoice, just click “Cancel”.

“Published” toggle button

For AI Radio Bot to source content from a given RSS feed, the “Published” option should be set to ON. If set to OFF, a given RSS feed will be ignored.

“Name” text field

Name field is for you to be able to tell the different RSS feeds apart. You could add multiple RSS feeds to source content from. For each one, you could set a unique set of post processing options as well. Name is the required field, it can not be left blank.

“URL” text field

This is the web address of the RSS feed. Please include http:// or https:// as well as the rest of the parts of the URL. Incomplete URLs won’t work. “URL” field is the required field, it can not be left blank.

“Number of Articles” numeric field

“Number of Articles” is for you to specify how many articles AI Radio Bot should source from each RSS feed.

“Parse Frequency (In Hours)” scrollbar

“Parse Frequency” lets you set exactly how often you would like AI Radio Bot to source content from each article. You could choose between 1 and 24 hour frequency. If you would need RSS to be sourced more often than once every hour, we have dedicated instance options available, which could let you achieve exactly that. Please contact us and we will walk you through the details.

“Language”, “Voice”, “Reading Speed” and “Background Music” options

These options are similar to the voiceover options you have seen in the “Add New Article” form. All articles sourced by “RSS Reader” are inserted into the “Articles” table, similarly to the articles you add manually. When you add articles manually, you also set the voiceover language, type of voice, reading speed as well as the background music. Each article which will be sourced from each particular RSS feed will have these settings passed on to it when inserted to the “Articles Table”. More details on each of these options could be found in the section “Text Content > Add New Article” of this documentation.

“Auto-Delete Old Content” toggle button

“Auto-Delete Old Content” option lets you choose if you would like AI Radio Bot to automatically delete old articles sourced from each particular RSS feed when it sources the latest content from that particular RSS feed. If “Auto-Delete Old Content” is set to OFF, then old content will be left untouched and you will have to delete it yourself. As you can see, we try to provide you with control over almost every detail of hosting your own online AI powered radio station. Our goal is to automate as much as possible, yet we understand that each host might want to do it the old way, which they are used to. Plus if you would like to keep the content that is coming from RSS, setting this option to OFF will make it happen. By default “Auto-Delete Old Content” option is set to ON and AI Radio Bot will clean up old content before sourcing new one from each RSS.

“Approve Before Airing” toggle button

Each article, when inserted to “Articles Table” needs to have the “Published” option set to ON for AI radio Bot to pick it up and air to your listeners. Option “Approve Before Airing” lets you choose if you want the “Published” option to be set to ON, so that as soon as articles are sourced from RSS and voiced, they would air on your radio. Or you could have it to default to OFF, so that you could go over the content sourced from RSS, before listeners get to hear it. Setting “Approve Before Airing” to ON, will set the “Published” option for every article sourced from this RSS to OFF. And vice versa, if you set “Approve Before Airing” to OFF, then the article's “Published” option will be set to ON.

“Include Titles Into Body” toggle button

Each RSS feed comes with the title and the body. If you would like the titles of each article to be included with the body of the article, then set “Include Titles Into Body” option to ON. If you would like an RSS reader to only source the body of the articles, excluding the titles, then set “Include Titles Into Body” to OFF.

“Read Only The Title” toggle button

On some occasions you might want to exclude the body of the RSS articles and only have AI Radio Bot read the titles. And you have that option as well. If you set “Read Only The Title” to ON, AI radio Bot will exclude the body of the articles and only air the voiceovers of the titles.

“Merge Articles Into One” toggle button

At times, the RSS feeds come with short articles, or maybe if you are just sourcing titles, then you would want those to be merged as part of one single article. You can achieve exactly that by setting the “Merge Articles Into One” option to ON. If set to ON, “RSS Reader” will source all content from the RSS feed, merge it into a single article and insert it all as a single article to the “Articles Table”.

“Remove Paths / URLs” toggle button

Some RSS might come with file paths or web addresses embedded inside the text of the titles or the bodies. Setting “Remove Paths / URLs” to ON, will instruct AI Radio Bot to try to remove the file paths and URLs out of the text.

“Remove Duplicate Text” toggle button

RSS text is never perfect. We have noticed cases when RSS content comes back full of duplicate sentences. Setting the “Remove Duplicate Text” option to ON will make AI Radio Bot run the text of each RSS article through the AI model in an attempt to remove duplicate text from each article sourced via RSS.

"Disable Spelling Of Capitalized Words" toggle button:

This feature was added as the way to disable the following feature. Our voiceover engine will attempt to spell the abbreviations that are written in all capital letters. Therefore, at times if, for example, a name of the artist exists in the text for voiceover and is written in all capital letters, it is possible that our voiceover engine will try to spell it. By turning "Disable Spelling Of Capitalized Words" feature ON, you will make AI Radio Bot to convert all text within all sentences, which comes from RSS, to lower case letters, leaving only the first letter of each sentence in capital. This will surely prevent AI Radio Bot from spelling the words inside of the sentences. The fact that it spells capitalized words is not a problem, but a feature of its own. To disable it, set the "Disable Spelling Of Capitalized Words" toggle button to ON. Please don't forget to press the "Save" button at the bottom of the screen for this change to take effect.

“Summarize Text” toggle button

At times you might want to have text summarized. Setting the “Summarize Text” option to ON will make the AI Radio Bot run the text through the AI model in an attempt to summarize it. Remember that the AI model has a mind of its own. It might summarize some texts better than others. From what we have experienced thus far, it did a very good job summarizing text. However we still suggest to accompany this option with setting “Approve Before Airing” option to ON as well. This way you can review the summarized text in the “Text Content > Articles” section to make sure it is what you want your listeners to hear on air. We haven’t noticed any surprises, but please make sure once more before setting this feature on autopilot.

“Correct Grammar” toggle button

Setting the “Correct Grammar” option to ON will instruct AI Radio Bot to run the text from RSS feeds through the grammar correction. If you source text from a credible resource, then you don’t need this feature to be on. However if you source data from someone’s private blog, often bloggers make more typos, since they release many articles often. This feature will help you to prevent the text with grammatical errors to be sent for voiceover. It should not change the context of your text. However we still suggest to accompany this option with setting “Approve Before Airing” option to ON as well. This way you can review the summarized text in the “Text Content > Articles” section to make sure it is what you want your listeners to hear on air.

“Revise Text” toggle button

At times you might want to have text revised. Setting the “Revise Text” option to ON will make the AI Radio Bot run the text through the AI model in an attempt to revise it. Remember that the AI model has a mind of its own. It might revise some texts better than others. From what we have experienced thus far, it did a very good job revising text. However we still suggest to accompany this option with setting “Approve Before Airing” option to ON as well. This way you can review the revised text in the “Text Content > Articles” section to make sure it is what you want your listeners to hear on air. We haven’t noticed any surprises, but please make sure once more before setting this feature on autopilot.

“Randomize” toggle button

This option lets you randomize the order of the sourced articles. When articles are sourced, they are inserted into "Articles Table". The randomization of automated broadcasts is done there even without this option enabled. In fact this option here has no effect on that randomization at all. However, this option will randomize the order at which the articles from each particular RSS are played back on air from “Playlists”. In the playlist itself, hosts are able to select to play the content of the given RSS feed as part of that playlist. You can add separate articles to “Playlists” one by one, but you can also choose the whole RSS feed as one of the elements in each given “User Generated Playlist”. In that case, AI Radio Bot will read all articles from that RSS back to back in the order they were sourced, or in random order. Setting this particular “randomize” option to ON, will have articles from the particular RSS feed to be aired randomly each time the playlist from “Playlists” section is aired with this RSS listed in it.

“Ignore Articles with Negative Sentiment” toggle button

For the hosts who would love to make sure that only the positive content is being sourced from RSS feeds, we have added this feature. If “Ignore Articles with Negative Sentiment” is set to ON, AI Radio Bot will run the text through the sentiment analysis in an attempt to filter out all content with negative sentiment. Is this feature perfect? It worked acceptably when we tested it. However we still suggest to accompany this option with setting “Approve Before Airing” option to ON as well. This way you can review the sourced text in the “Text Content > Articles” section to make sure it is what you want your listeners to hear on air. At times text might be worded neutrally, yet still carry the negative message, that unfortunately we can not detect to perfection yet. Still this feature will be an additional helpful filter.

“Ignore Articles by Keywords” toggle button

In addition, you could specify the list of keywords for AI radio Bot to look for in the text it is sourcing. If AI Radio Bot finds these keywords, it will ignore them. To enable this filter, set the “Ignore Articles by Keywords” option to ON. Then click the “Add New Keywords” button, type in the keywords you would like AI radio Bot to watch out for and click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page. From what we have experienced thus far, it did a very good job filtering text by keywords and keyphrases. However we still suggest to accompany this option with setting “Approve Before Airing” option to ON as well. This way you can review the sourced text in the “Text Content > Articles” section to make sure it is what you want your listeners to hear on air. We haven’t noticed any surprises, but please make sure once more before setting this feature on autopilot.

“Default Fallback Message” text area

You might need the “Default Fallback Message” when RSS doesn’t have any new content to source from it. By default, AI radio Bot will simply ignore the RSS if there is no content to source from it. But if you prefer AI Radio Bot to still announce something for when there is nothing else to read from the given RSS feed, this is exactly where you would need to type your message in and click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.

“Intro Text” text area

If you want specific text to be aired before each article of the given RSS feed, this is the text box where you would type it in. Note that this text will be read before every article of the given RSS feed. It makes sense to repeat it for every article when articles are long. However when articles are short and are of the same topic, to avoid the intro text repeat in front of every article, please enable option "Merge Articles Into One" and option "Remove Duplicate Text". Doing so, will make one article out of multiple articles sourced from RSS feed and add the intro text only once for the content of the whole RSS feed.

“Outro Text” text area

If you want specific text to be aired after each article of the given RSS feed, this is the text box where you would type it in. Note that this text will be read after every article of the given feed. It makes sense to repeat it for every article when articles are long. However when articles are short and are of the same topic, to avoid this text repeated after every article, please enable option "Merge Articles Into One" and option "Remove Duplicate Text". Doing so, will make one article out of multiple articles sourced from RSS feed and add the text only once for the whole RSS feed as the closing statement.

"Strings to Replace":

This feature lets you replace some parts of the text, which AI Radio Bot sources from each RSS feed to some other text. Or if you want to delete some text from the articles of the given RSS feed, you would then type in that text into the field "From" of the "Strings to Replace" option, while leaving the field "To" empty. If you want to replace some text of RSS Feed articles to some other text, then you would type in text to replace, into field "From" and type in text to replace it with, into field "To". To bring up the text fields, click the button: “Add New Strings”. After filling them out, click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.

“Schedules”:

These options are similar to the scheduling options you have seen in the “Add New Article” form. All articles sourced by “RSS Reader” are inserted into the “Articles” table, similarly to the articles you add manually. When you add articles manually, you can also set the schedule for that article to air at the given Date, Day of the Week and/or Time. Each article which will be sourced from each particular RSS feed will have this schedule setting passed on to it when inserted to the “Articles” table. More in depth details on scheduling options could be found in the section “Text Content > Add New Article” of this documentation.

“Artist or Band Name”, “Track Title” and “Genre” text fields

These text fields speak for themselves. One thing to note is that if you enable the “Announce This Track” option and provide the “Artist or Band Name” and “Track Title”, then AI Radio Bot will try to generate some cool song announcements for you, using generative-AI. For known artists it can even mention some facts about the artist or the song.

“Automated Music Announcement”

You probably remember the option “Insert Music Announcement”, which is available in the "Broadcast Settings". That is the global option for this whole feature. Disabling that option, will switch off music announcements for all your music. However we have also added one more option, which lets you enable or disable music announcements for each track separately. "Announce This Track" toggle button is exactly for that. If set to ON, AI Radio Bot will announce this song. If switched OFF, AI radio Bot will air this song without announcing it. Announcements come in the spoken form, just like on any terrestrial radio station. AI Radio Bot will automatically speak the announcement before the track and then press play on the actual musical composition right after. It's a neat feature to have, isn't it? Yeah, we like it too.

You could also choose the “Language”, the “Voice” and even the “Reading Speed” for the voiceover.

“Predefined Music Announcement”

If you don’t want AI radio Bot to generate you an announcement, you could fill out the “Music Announcement” text area with your own announcement. If filled out, then AI Radio Bot will read your own custom announcement. If a given song is very personal to you and you want to announce it in some special way, this is exactly how you would do it.

However, if you want AI Radio Bot to generate the music announcement, using generative-AI, you must leave the "Music Announcement" text area empty, but specify the “Name of the Artist or Band” and “Track Title”. Then AI Radio Bot will use generative-AI to generate an announcement for you. For known artists, AI Radio Bot will even try to pull a short history or some cool facts about the artist as part of the announcement. For unknown artists, AI Radio Bot will use just an artist name and song title, using more universal music announcement format.

"Overlay Announcement Speech On Top of Music"

Music announcement could be broadcasted to your listeners in two different flavors. It could be streamed on its own before the start of the music track, which it is announcing. It could also be overlaid on top of the music track at the beginning of the track, which it is announcing. At that point in the moment where speech is, the volume of the music track will go lower, announcement is read on top of the music and then volume of the music track goes back to normal as it continues to playback until the end. To have the announcement broadcasted separately before the start of the music track, set "Overlay Announcement On Music" toggle button to OFF. If you want the announcement to be overlaid on top of the music at the beginning of the music track, then set "Overlay Announcement On Music" toggle button to ON. Please don't forget to press the "Save" button at the bottom of the screen for this change to take effect.

"Add New LIVE Playlist" button

Clicking on the "Add New LIVE Playlist" button will open a simple form with a "Name" field on it. Just type in the name and click the "Save" button. That's it - you have created your first live broadcast playlist.

Note that LIVE Playlists have no connection to the Playlists designed for the AI Radio Bot's automated broadcast. Everything on the “LIVE” page is strictly dedicated to your Live Broadcast and nothing else.

Next, you need to add content into your playlist. Click the "Manage Content" button located at the right side of the LIVE Playlists table. That will take you to the playlist management panel for that specific LIVE Playlist.

Click the "Add Content" button. In the Add Content overlay, locate the drop-down that has "Articles" selected as default. That is the "Content Type" drop-down and it is located right under the title "Add Content" at the top left corner. Open the "Content Type" drop-down. You will see there are two options: "Articles" and "Audio Content". Selecting "Audio Content" will load all content from your "Audio Content" section, where you have all your uploaded music MP3 and pre-recorded content. Selecting "Articles" will load the Text Voiceovers which AI Radio Bot generated from the text you have provided.

For this tutorial, please select the "Audio Content" option from the "Content Type" drop-down.

Next, select the checkboxes of any 5 audio files in the list. You'll notice that when you select the checkboxes, the "Add to Playlist" button pops up right next to them. Clicking "Add to Playlist" will add all selected items, so you don't need to press it multiple times - just select multiple checkboxes and press the "Add to Playlist" button once.

Now the "Add Content" overlay is still open and is designed to be so. To close it, please click the "Close" button located at the bottom left corner of the "Add Content" overlay.

That takes you back to the "LIVE" page. You can now see the LIVE Playlist filled in with your selected content items, making them ready for streaming within your live broadcast.

Just so you understand how to get back to this playlist or other LIVE Playlists, please click the "Back to Live Playlists" button. It is very important to use the "Back to Live Playlists" button to navigate out of the current playlist and into another one. It will keep you on the "LIVE" page in the same browser session. If you use the browser's Back button, it will reload the page and stop your ongoing Live Broadcast.

Please click the "Back to Live Playlists" button. It takes you one step back and the "LIVE Playlists" panel refreshes with the list of playlists you have created. For now you have only one. You can add more playlists and navigate between them while the live stream is ongoing. Just please make sure not to reload the "LIVE" page. Use our navigation built into the LIVE page.

Click the "Manage Content" button for your playlist. Now you can see you are back in the playlist and you can send the audio clips in the list for broadcast. You can again press the "Back to Live Playlists" button, then press “Manage Content” of another playlist and send files from the second playlist, while the file from the first playlist is still playing.

Note that you can absolutely make multiple playlists and navigate between them in the middle of a live broadcast without interrupting it. However, please DO NOT leave the "LIVE" page. Leaving the "LIVE" page will cause the live stream to stop. Managing LIVE Playlists, which are built into the "LIVE" page, is absolutely fine.

Each element in the list has a "Play on Stream" button. If your Live Broadcast is running and you click the "Play on Stream" button, that file will start playing back in your stream. Note that there could be a delay between the initiation of the playback and the stream itself. You are working on a cloud server that is far away from you, and it takes time for data to travel back and forth. Sometimes delays are very short and sometimes the delay is longer, but never too long.

The tiny gray "Play" icon located in the "Actions" column of the playlist items table is for you to preview the audio clip; clicking that button will not send it to stream. It’s there for you to preview to make sure you're sending what you intend to the actual listeners.

To remove an element from the LIVE Playlist, simply click the "Trash Bin" icon, which is also located inside the "Actions" column.

"Play Content on Stream" button

Please click the "Back to Live Playlists" button if you are inside a LIVE Playlist, or if you are on some other page altogether, click the "LIVE" menu item located on the main header menu of the AI Radio Studio. Next, click the blue "Play Content on Stream" button.

What opens is an overlay that gives you access to all your Article and Audio content, making it available at your fingertips for broadcast whenever you need it. While "LIVE Playlists" make it easier for you to select content before you go live, "Play Content on Stream" provides access to all of your content, which you can send to stream within your live broadcast at any time.

It works exactly the same way. Pressing the "Play on Stream" button for any item will start its playback in your live stream, not the automated stream. This entire part of AI Radio Studio is strictly designed for your live broadcast.

Pressing the red "Playing…" button with a square icon will stop the playback of the audio clip that is currently broadcasting.

To exit this overlay, press the "Close" button located at the bottom left corner of the "Play Content on Stream" overlay. Please DO NOT use the browser's "Back" button, as it will reload the "LIVE" page and cause your ongoing live stream to stop. Pressing the “Close” button on the overlay will keep you in Live Stream without interrupting it. You can then navigate back to your LIVE Playlists to, or reopen the "Play Content on Stream" overlay.