[PRE REVIEW]: When Content Speaks Volumes: Podcastfy — An Open Source Python Package Bridging Multimodal Data and Conversational Audio with GenAI

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Submitting author: @souzatharsis (Thársis T. P. Souza)
Repository: https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy
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Version: v0.2.17
Editor: Pending
Reviewers: Pending
Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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Commit count by author:

   134	souzatharsis
   116	Tharsis Souza
     8	ChinoU
     5	Devendra Parihar
     4	devendra.parihar
     3	bruno
     2	Twilight
     1	Bibek Raj Ghimire
     1	Ikko Eltociear Ashimine
     1	ImgBotApp
     1	Yash
     1	barbarian360

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 2090

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: Apache License 2.0 (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

✅ OK DOIs

- None

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: LangChain: Building applications with LLMs through...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Adaptive user interfaces for accessibility across ...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Digital accessibility tools for multimodal content...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Design for multimodal human-computer interaction
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Web accessibility and multimodal digital engagemen...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Advances in adaptive user interfaces for enhanced ...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Language models are few-shot learners
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Tacotron: Towards end-to-end speech synthesis
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Making content more accessible with multimodal tra...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Multimodal learning meets content transformation
- No DOI given, and none found for title: A survey of AI-powered content transformation tool...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: A survey on multimodal large language models
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Llama 2: Open foundation language models
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Google’s multilingual neural machine translation s...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Privacy-preserving language models: A survey
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Automated content transformation in the era of lar...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: A systematic review of AI in education
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Content creation and distribution in the AI era
- No DOI given, and none found for title: A survey of AI-powered accessibility tools

❌ MISSING DOIs

- 10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_18 may be a valid DOI for title: Accessibility of digital information: Standards, f...
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8461368 may be a valid DOI for title: Natural TTS synthesis by conditioning WaveNet on m...

❌ INVALID DOIs

- None

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[danielskatz]

👋 @souzatharsis - thanks for your submission. As it's not clear to me that this is research software as defined by JOSS, the editors will now discuss this. You should hear back in a week or so.

If this passes that review, some other issues that will need to be addressed include

• fixing the possibly missing DOIs
• reducing the length of the paper from the current 2000 words to closer to the JOSS guidelines of 250-1000 words

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Submission flagged for editorial review.

[souzatharsis]

Many thanks for considering this work for publication.

The submission was made on the basis of being a contribution that "extracts knowledge from large data sets" as per JOSS definition.

If that is not the case, please let me know at your earliest convenience so I can proceed with a submission at another venue.

Your review is much appreciated.

[souzatharsis]

Paper length has been reduced following JOSS guidelines of 250-1000 words

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[danielskatz]

👋 @souzatharsis - I'm sorry to say that after discussion amongst the JOSS editors, we have decided that this submission is not research software as defined by JOSS. This does not mean that it is not software that is useful in research, but just that JOSS does not consider it in scope for review as research software. Please see https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html#other-venues-for-reviewing-and-publishing-software-packages for other suggestions for how you might receive credit for your work.

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@editorialbot reject

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Paper rejected.

[souzatharsis]

Hi @danielskatz , many thanks for consider this paper for publication.
I understand the decision and appreciate the swift review.
Thanks.