# Turn today’s news into a two-voice audio briefing. Read in full, then recorded An audio briefing turns the day’s news into a short conversation you can listen to. With Agentik, your AI finds today’s news with Serper, reads the articles in full with Exa, and records a two-host script and a jingle with fal. - For: Busy professionals, teams and podcasters - Providers: 3 (Serper, Exa and fal.ai), 4 tools - Example (3 news searches, 6 articles read, a two-host script of about 3,000 characters, a 5-second jingle): at most $0.38, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-10-10 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **Serper** (1 tool, at most $0.03): Today’s Google News results on your topic. - **Exa** (1 tool, at most $0.02): The full text of the six most important articles. - **fal.ai** (2 tools, at most $0.33): The two-host recording and a short jingle. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: audio news briefing. Make me an audio news briefing. First ask me for my topic, how long it should be and the tone. Find today’s news with serper/news. Read the six most important articles with exa/contents. Write a two-host script and record it with fal/elevenlabs-text-to-dialogue-v3. Create a short jingle with fal/elevenlabs-sound-effects-v2. Finish with the script, its sources and the audio files. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - Your topic - Length and tone ## What you get: a recorded two-host briefing with its script - Today’s most important stories - A two-host script with sources - The recorded briefing - A short jingle ## How to make an audio news briefing in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: 3 news searches, 6 articles read, a two-host script of about 3,000 characters, a 5-second jingle. ### 1. Find today’s news Serper searches today’s news on your topic. - [Google News search](/tools/serper/news.md) `serper/news` (Serper, 3 searches): at most $0.03 ### 2. Read the articles Exa returns the full text of the six most important articles. - [Exa page contents for URLs](/tools/exa/contents.md) `exa/contents` (Exa, 6 articles): at most $0.02 ### 3. Record the briefing ElevenLabs records the two-host script in two distinct voices. - [ElevenLabs Eleven v3 multi-speaker dialogue to speech text](/tools/fal/elevenlabs-text-to-dialogue-v3.md) `fal/elevenlabs-text-to-dialogue-v3` (fal.ai, about 3,000 characters): at most $0.32 ### 4. Add a jingle ElevenLabs makes a five-second jingle to open the briefing. - [ElevenLabs Sound Effects v2 text to sound effect](/tools/fal/elevenlabs-sound-effects-v2.md) `fal/elevenlabs-sound-effects-v2` (fal.ai, 5 seconds): at most $0.01 Example total: at most $0.38. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Make me a ten-minute audio briefing on electric vehicles today. - Turn this week’s AI news into a two-host podcast segment. - Record a daily briefing for my team from today’s industry news. - Write and record a short news recap I can listen to in the car. ## Why through Agentik - News, full articles and voices come from Serper, Exa and fal through one connection. - The recording is most of the price; news searches cost a cent. ## Good to know - Say clearly that the voices are AI-generated if you publish the briefing. - Your AI only summarises articles it read and keeps their links. ## When to use something else For a produced podcast with real hosts, work with a podcast studio. This playbook makes a daily briefing in minutes, clearly AI-voiced. ## Audio news briefing: questions ### Are the voices real people? No. They are AI voices; say so if you publish the briefing. ### Does it only summarise what it read? Yes. Your AI keeps the link of every article it uses. ### What does the example cost? At most $0.38, reserved before each call and settled at the measured usage. ## Keep going - [Weekly newsletter draft](/newsletter-draft.md): The week’s news, Hacker News stories, X posts and Reddit threads on your topic, the best ones read in full, turned into a newsletter draft with links. - [Morning market brief](/morning-market-brief.md): Indexes, top movers, crypto and currencies, the market news and your watchlist’s headlines, read aloud as a two-minute audio brief. - [Social listening](/social-listening.md): Posts on X, Hacker News threads, YouTube comments and news coverage, read together and sorted into themes. - [Audio tools for your agent](/tools/audio.md) - [News tools for your agent](/tools/news.md) - [Web search tools for your agent](/tools/search.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/audio-news-briefing) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)