For the Lesson to Podcast project, how about starting with QuizWright to Podcast. This avoids a few problems: 1. quiz is linear so no branching or TOC to worry about; 2. simple question type - one right answer and no ‘maybes’; 3. single feedback which can sensibly summarize the right/wrong explanations (no need to merge multiple feedbacks with awkward canned prompts), 4. no images/charts to explain. Quizzes are generally pretty short so would be easy to spot check the final audio podcasts.
For the Lesson to Podcast project, how about starting with QuizWright to Podcast. This avoids a few problems: 1. quiz is linear so no branching or TOC to worry about; 2. simple question type - one right answer and no ‘maybes’; 3. single feedback which can sensibly summarize the right/wrong explanations (no need to merge multiple feedbacks with awkward canned prompts), 4. no images/charts to explain. Quizzes are generally pretty short so would be easy to spot check the final audio podcasts.
The code that turns a quiz into a CALI Author XML file could be repurposed to just output directly to a Polly friendly transcript: https://github.com/CCALI/quizwright/blob/quizwright/master/includes/build-xml.php