Building My Voice-to-Blog Workflow: 90% There and Testing

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For the past few weeks, I’ve been going back and forth with Claude, Make, Google Drive, and a bunch of other tools trying to build this workflow that takes my voice notes and turns them into blog posts on WordPress.

The Style Guide Struggle

One thing I’ve really struggled with is getting the style guide right. I want to keep things natural and maintain my tone as much as possible. Just minimal formatting – putting things in order, adding some headers, turning my waffling into proper sentence structure.

I made a great Claude project that I’m really happy with. But trying to replicate that into the Claude API? That’s been really difficult.

The Technical Back and Forth

I’ve tried multiple style sheets, wrestling with getting the title, excerpt, and all the metadata – the stuff behind the scenes – working properly.

Initially I had to get the outputs as JSON, then use a JSON parser, then link that to the WordPress Make plugin. Then everything was coming through in markdown and I had to find the right WordPress plugin to handle that.

After a lot of back and forth with Claude, I decided it was easier to use a WordPress plugin to convert markdown to HTML rather than trying to do it in the Make.com scenario.

Where I’m At Now

At the moment, I feel like I’m 90% there. This post is actually testing the workflow in its current form.

Here’s How It Works:

  1. I make a voice note on my Android recorder app
  2. Save it with a particular filename (that’s still manual)
  3. It automatically uploads to Google Drive
  4. My Make scenario scans Google Drive twice a week
  5. Finds the file and downloads it using the Google Drive plugin
  6. Uses OpenAI Whisper to convert voice to text
  7. That text goes through Claude to work its magic and convert it into my blog post
  8. Through the JSON parser and into WordPress
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The Final Touch

In WordPress is where I’ll do the last changes – inserting any links or minor tweaks I don’t like with how it came out.

Progress Check

This is post number four of the blog. Posts one and two were manual using Claude projects. Post three was automated, and now post four is hopefully automated as well.

Sometimes you do what you need to do, and building these workflows is part of the process. Let’s see how this one turns out.

This post started as a voice note and was converted to text using AI to maintain consistency and save time. The thoughts, experiences, and business journey are entirely my own.

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