# AI Story Generator

Generate stories using AI. From text to story (pdf and video)..

Overview

Generate stories using AI. From text to story (pdf and video).

Example videos can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@ai-story

A sample story can be found under _stories dir. The sample contains raw content (image, text and audio) alongside final_video.mp4 and final_story.pdf.

High Level Diagram

Prerequisites

Install requirements.txt.

Try it with a pre-generated story

python3 main.py --help

Process a pre-generated story.

python3 main.py --pickle ./_stories/2023_01_06_17_38_47-Five_Little_Monkeys/story_content.pickle

Generate a new Story

Open AI Credentials

1. Register with open AI beta: https://beta.openai.com/
2. Get organization and api key.
3. Create a local file named openai_creds.json with the below format and put it root dir of the project.

{
  "organization":  "xxx-XXXXXXXX",
  "api_key":  "xx-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
}

Pass a prompt instead of a pickle file

Replace "The Friendly Panda" with your favorite story title/prompt.

python3 main.py --prompt "The Friendly Panda"

Using AWS Polly

1. Go to AWS console.
2. Create an IAM User.
3. Attach existing policy AmazonPollyFullAccess
4. Under ./credentials create a new file called polly-creds.json and add the below content.

{
  "access_key": "xxxxxxxx",
  "secret_key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}

Check Results

Results can be found under _stories directory with a new dir prefixed with date and time of run.

Important Note

Open AI has limitations/restrictions on what kind of content you can create. So, it may fail to generate text or images for specific words and sentences.

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/