Bollywood Today

Bollywood Today is a voice-first news app for Hindi cinema fans. Tap a story and listen as you drive — natural neural narration in English or Hindi, fully on-device, no account required.

WHAT'S INSIDE
• Eight curated categories: Breaking, Releases, Box Office, Star Buzz, OTT, Awards, Reviews, Music
• Aggregated headlines from official sources — Filmfare, Bollywood Hungama, Pinkvilla, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Mid-Day, Koimoi and more
• Auto-advance queue plays stories back-to-back, hands-free
• Adjustable reading speed, autoplay, and full-summary toggle
• Switch language between English and Hindi with one tap
• Quiet background music bed under the voice — feels like a podcast, not a robot

BUILT FOR THE ROAD
• Native Android Automotive OS support — runs on the dashboard with big, glanceable cards
• Distraction-free interactions: tap to play, swipe to skip, voice carries the rest
• Also runs as a regular Android app on your phone or tablet

PRIVACY-FIRST
• No account, no login, no email required
• No advertising IDs, no analytics SDKs
• Neural Text-to-Speech runs entirely on-device — your headlines never leave your phone for synthesis
• News is fetched from publicly available RSS feeds — same model as Google News, Flipboard, Apple News

ON-DEVICE NEURAL VOICE
• Powered by Kokoro 82M (open-source, Apache 2.0)
• Native Hindi voice for authentic Devanagari pronunciation — actor and film names sound the way Hindi speakers say them
• Pronunciation-tuned for Bollywood names: Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, A.R. Rahman, Arijit Singh, and 100+ more actors, directors, and singers handled with custom phonetics
• Works offline once articles are cached

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