Developer Builds AI Tool That Turns Personal Stories Into Short Documentary Films

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A developer has created 'One More Year,' an open-source AI-powered documentary studio built for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition, running July 10–13, 2026. The tool asks users just four questions about a personal passion — what it is, when it nearly ended, why they continued, and one unique personal line. From those answers, an automated pipeline generates a narrated short film complete with performed voices, custom sound effects, and an original score. The project uses Google's Gemini AI and ElevenLabs for voice synthesis, and runs locally to protect API keys rather than being hosted publicly. The finished output is a real MP4 video file, produced entirely in the browser without an external render server.

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