Configuring Myriad News Capture v6 to automatically export the latest story in a category as a Live Read Script

Modified on Tue, 24 Sep at 12:55 PM

Introduction

Myriad News Capture v6 can be set to automatically export the text from the latest story to be saved into a Category as a "Live Read Script" directly into Myriad Playout. This script might then be used by a presenter, or by Myriad's built in AI Voice Link system to read out that story.

A good example of this might a Local news headlines feature where a journalist writes a "Local news headlines" script and saves it as a story into a specific Myriad News Story Category, and this is then used by the presenter in the studio as part of a local read, or voiced by Myriad itself as part of your radio station's output when the station is unattended.

Setting up the export

Setting up the export is very simple - open the Myriad News Capture v6 software, and on the Security menu click Login. Enter your Username and Password and click OK to enable all of the menu options:

Back on the main News Capture window, click on Settings then News Database Settings, and make sure you have selected the Categories tab, then scroll down to the Story Category you want to automatically export stories from. In this screen shot, we have selected the "Wirefeeds>Headlines" category. Then click the Edit button to open the settings for this category:

On the Edit Category window, you can edit the name of the Category, set its colour and optional icon, and also set whether stories should be automatically archived and/or deleted after a certain period.

The key setting we are interested in is the option at the bottom "Write the latest saved story to a text file in the '\Scripts' folder". Check the box to turn this feature on and click OK to close the edit window:

Back on the main News Database Settings window, click OK to save the settings and close the window.

Testing the feature

Either wait for a story to be automatically captured into that Story, or using Myriad Anywhere News, create a new story and save it into that Category - in our example, the "Headlines" category.

If you look in Windows Explorer, in the Myriad Data folder you will see the Scripts folder and in there you should see a simple text file has been created with the name of the category "Headlines.txt":

Double clicking on this file will open it in Notepad and you will see the script from that story:

In Myriad Playout, click on the Scripts menu and you will also see the file has appeared there:

And on the SmartInfo tab, change to the Scripts page and you can select it there to see the whole script:

Using the script in an AI Voice Link:

Now that the file exists and is being kept always up to date by Myriad News Capture, you can follow the instructions in the AI Voice Links "Tags" article to then use the script as part of an AI Voice link. In this example we are inserting the script after some introductory text: