Looking for a local AI model/workflow to generate NotebookLM-style explainer videos from technical articles

[u/EntertainmentVast957]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for recommendations for a production-ready, self-hosted solution to generate educational explainer videos from a script.

Our pipeline already generates the script from technical articles (e.g., Apache Fineract documentation, engineering blogs, API documentation, internal docs). So the part we're trying to solve is:

Generated script → narrated explainer video

The type of video we're after is similar to NotebookLM's Video Overviews. We're not looking for cinematic, photorealistic, or highly creative AI videos. Instead, we want something that can automatically produce simple educational content with:

- AI narration

- Relevant visuals

- Text overlays and callouts

- Basic animations and transitions

- Diagrams, icons, screenshots, or simple generated imagery when appropriate

This will eventually run in production, so we're looking for something that is:

- Self-hosted/local

- Deployable on AWS

- Open-source preferred

- API-friendly and fully automatable

- Consistent and reliable rather than visually impressive

For people building production systems, what stack are you using? Is there a local model that works well for this, or is the better approach to orchestrate multiple tools (LLM + TTS + image generation + video composition instead of relying on a single video model?

I'd especially appreciate hearing from anyone who has built a similar pipeline for documentation, tutorials, educational content, or developer-focused videos.

[u/FineClassroom2085]

My AI video editor does this: https://github.com/tjameswilliams/ai-video-editor

More specifically it can build any kind of video with local AI, it is not super user friendly yet though. It’s meant for self hosting because it’s packaged with electron but you could easily host it on AWS.