200 points · 1 submission
with Firecrawl
BriefBot is a real-time AI voice news anchor. Ask it anything about current events and it delivers a structured, broadcast-quality briefing spoken back to you in seconds in your language. How it works: ElevenLabs Conversational Agent handles voice input and output using George's broadcast anchor voice. When you ask a question, the agent calls a custom webhook that fires the Firecrawl Search API to retrieve live structured web content in real time. The agent synthesizes the results and delivers a spoken briefing. Key features: - Live web search via Firecrawl — zero hallucination, always current - 4 languages: English, French, Spanish, German — auto-detected via Scribe v2.1 - Morning briefing — 5 parallel Firecrawl searches at once - Source transparency — every briefing shows clickable sources - Live news ticker — real headlines fetched on page load - Text input mode — no microphone needed Built with: ElevenLabs Conversational Agents + Scribe v2.1 + V3 Voice + Firecrawl Search API + Node.js + Express. Deployed on Railway.
Submitted 25 Mar 2026