Speaker - Page to Speech Plugin for WordPress

Speaker is a WordPress Plugin designed to converts website page content into human-like speech. The plugin uses the latest technology of machine learning and artificial intelligence to play a high-quality human voice and add an audio player with content to the page. The basis of the Speaker plugin is the Google Cloud Platform, which ensures the reliability and speed of the plugin anywhere in the world.

The Speaker WordPress Plugin converts text into human-like speech in more than 190 voices across 35+ languages and variants. It applies groundbreaking research in speech synthesis (WaveNet) and Google’s robust neural networks to deliver high-fidelity audio.
The Speaker is the only WordPress Plugin that supports the standard of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language(SSML). SSML allows you to fine-tune speech for each article on your website. You can pause, intonate, read numbers and telephones in the usual format for humans. In addition, the SSML in the Speaker allows using several voices and languages ​​in a single article. For example, you can voice an article with an interview in several different voices, or use this feature for online language courses.

We are glad to present you Speaker 3.0 with a new advanced feature that provides flexible settings for voicing your posts or pages. Now the text-to-speech plugin supports not only the regular WordPress post and page but also Custom post types and is compatible with almost all themes or plugins. Since posts can contain different types of fields, the question accordingly arises of how to generate audio for certain fields depending on the needs of the users. This question was resolved by adding Speech Templates support that allow you to create and apply separate speech templates with specific settings and elements for each type of post.

This product has been tested and is fully compatible with all popular WordPress editors. Incredibly flexible plugin settings allow you to enable/disable it on different pages; for different user groups; on different devices(mobile, tablet, desktop).

A lot of useful functions and settings

Batch processing allows you to convert into speech all the existing pages of your site. To do this, just make a few clicks in the familiar WordPress interface. It doesn’t matter how many posts on your site are 5 or 5,000 for all of its speech will be synthesized and an audio file generated.

Custom Post Type support feature which allows you to generate audio not only for regular posts and pages but for third party types like Product, Portfolio, Property, etc. This greatly extends the use of the Speaker.

Speech Templates editor to create and apply separate speech templates with specific settings and elements for each type of post.

Customizable intro and outro for all synthesized speech files, a very convenient feature if you want all your files to be branded in the same style. For example, you can add a greeting or copyright at the beginning and/or end of each speech file.

Flexible design features allow you to customize the appearance of the player to your liking and place it in different positions on the page. Besides, you can place several players on one page. For example, if you want to insert audio versions of several other articles into one article to maintain the context of the story.

Many of the customers requested a link to download the audio file. And we did it for you! Now with just one setting, you can enable the display of the download link on both the Front-end and the Back-end.

We continuously monitor the latest innovations and trends in the development universe. And they prepared a plugin to work with the newest version of PHP. However, you can use the plugin on older versions as well. The speaker is compatible with the PHP version starting from 5.6 and up to most recent stable versions.

The new user interface has been made specifically for version 2.0. The UI is inspired by the Material Design style and looks fresh and modern.

Elementor widget and WPBakery Page Builder addon support to add the Speaker player to the page.

The Automatic Speech Synthesis feature allows you to generate audio when saving or updating pages. This is useful if you publish a lot of posts on your site and want to save time on generating.

Speaker is fully cross-browser. It does not matter which browser users view your site. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Edge, or even the outdated versions of Internet Explorer – in all browsers, visitors will get an incredible experience. Moreover, this is especially important if your site has many long pages, such as a Blog, Portfolio, Corporate Website, eCommerce Project, Creative Agency, Real Estate Listing, Personal CV, a Restaurant or Retail Company.

Features of Page to Speech Plugin

• Supported SSML(Speech Synthesis Markup Language) for WordPress
• Speech Template editor support
• Batch processing WordPress Pages and Posts
• Automatically Speech Synthesizing
• Multiple voices and languages on the single page
• Custom pauses and intonation
• 30+ Languages Includes
• More than 190 human-like voices
• Customizable speech speed and pitch for each voice
• Custom audio Intro and Outro
• Tested and compatible with Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder and Visual Composer
• Works well with all popular WordPress Themes
• Gutenberg Ready
• Five Player Styles
• Download link on Front-end and(or) Back-end
• Seven Positions for Placing the Player
• Includes Player Shortcode to Place Anywhere on the Website
• Perfect for RTL direction
• Native Valid JavaScript, without jQuery
• Beautiful modern User Interface
• Tested and Compatible up to WordPress 5++
• Lightweight and Fast
• Powered by Google Cloud Platform
• Compatible with all Modern Browsers
• Includes exclusive access to WaveNet technology
• Easy to use and customize
• Installation Guide
• Detailed Users Manual
• Huge Customization Capabilities
• Six months Included Support for CodeCanyon buyers

Speaker Text-to-Speech Plugin tested and compatible with All Major WP Plugins: Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, W3 Total Cache, NextGen Gallery, Slider Revolution, WooCommerce, etc. It also works perfectly and improves the user experience with popular Website Page Builders, like Elementor, Visual Composer, Gutenberg, Beaver Builder, Divi, Themify Builder, WP Bakery Page Builder, Layers WP, and many others. The plugin works perfectly with all significant WordPress frameworks: Genesis, Divi, Themify, Warp 7, Ultimatum, Beans, Unyson, Gantry, and others.

Learn a little more about what the plugin can do and how to configure it from the Online Documentation.

Installing the WordPress plugin is quick and straightforward. After you have downloaded the archive with the plugin, you will see the file with the plugin inside. Unzipped purchased the product you will see inside the archive with the plugin pluginname.zip There are two ways to install it:

Installation of the Plugin through the WordPress Admin panel ( Recommended for most users )

STEP 1

First of all, open WordPress admin area login page and login in into WordPress as Admin. To do this visit http://yoursitename/wp-admin

STEP 2

Go to Plugins > Add New

STEP 3

Click Upload Plugin Button

STEP 5

Choose archive with Plugin and press Install Now Button

STEP 6

After Installing go back to the Plugins page and click Activate below plugin title

Installation the plugin through FTP or build-in File manager

STEP 1

Use Login and Password to connect to your web-server via FTP or use your hosting file manager.

STEP 2

Upload archive with plugin to /wp-content/plugins

STEP 3

On next step Unzip the archive with the plugin

STEP 4

Installing WordPress Plugin is almost finished. Go to the Plugins page and click Activate below plugin title. You can find out your username and password on the website of your hosting provider.

After installing and activating the plugin, you can go to settings of the Plugin. Also, you can read more helpful articles about WordPress Themes and WordPress Plugins.

The Speaker WordPress Plugin converts post or webpage into human-like speech in more than 194 voices across 35+ languages and variants. It applies groundbreaking research in speech synthesis (WaveNet) and Google’s robust neural networks to deliver high-fidelity audio.

NOTES

This manual was created for plugins version 2.0.0 and higher. If you use plugins of an older version, use the Speaker settings manual for versions 1.0.^.

To open the plugin settings in the WordPress Sidebar menu go to Speaker

In the plugin settings, there are several tabs responsible for various groups of plugin settings.

• Voice
• Design
• Post Types
• Assignments
• Activation
• Status
• Uninstall

Voice Settings

The voice tab describes the basic settings of the plugin, the selection of voices and features of speech synthesis.

API Key File

When you first run the plugin, you need to connect the Key File. How to get the Key File you can learn from the article About Key File for the Speaker & Voicer WordPress Plugins

Now used

Shows which voice is selected now, and also allows you to listen to the voice sample chosen with default settings.

You can also listen to the Supported Google Voices and Languages in the Google Cloud Documentation.

Language

Using the filter, you can choose from the table the voices you need. After selecting a language, you can filter the table by voice type and gender.

To select and activate a voice, click on the row in the table. The selected voice will be highlighted in blue.

Audio Profile

You can optimize the synthetic speech produced by Cloud Text-to-Speech API for playback on different types of hardware. For example, if your app runs primarily on smaller, ‘wearable’ types of devices, you can create a synthetic speech from Cloud Text-to-Speech API that is optimized specifically for smaller speakers.

Speaking Rate/Speed

This setting changes the voice playback speed. The smaller the number, the slower the synthesized voice will speak, and the more the amount will be, the faster will be the speaker. The normal speed is 1. You can select any value in the range from 0.25 to 4. The higher the number, the faster the speech.

Pitch

Speaking pitch, in the range [-20.0, 20.0]. 20 means an increase of 20 semitones from the original pitch. -20 means a decrease of 20 semitones from the original pitch. The default value is 0

Volume Gain

The setting controls the audio gain via the slider. There are available values from -10dB to 15dB.

Before Audio

In this text filed you can add text that will be added at the beginning of the audio file. For example, you can add an invitation or copyrights.

After Audio

In this setting, you can add text that will be added to the end of the audio file. For example, you can add farewell or copyrights.

Read the Title

The option allows you to voice to the Title of the current post/page when generating audio.

The setting can be applied only to the default Speech Template “Content“

Automatic synthesis

This setting enables automatic speech synthesis when you press the Update button or Publish Button.

NOTES

This option can significantly increase the cost of your monthly Google Cloud quota.

Turning on this option every time you make changes to the page and save them all the contents of the old page will be sent for speech synthesizing. For example:

• you created a post of 5000 characters in size and Published it – your content automatically sent to Google Cloud and voiced. 5000 characters will be written off from your balance
• you added one comma (one character) to the text and click Save – 5001 characters will be automatically sent for speech synthesizing. 5001 symbols will be deducted from your balance

Design

The design tab contains settings related to the design of the Player and its surrounding elements.

Player position

You can select one of the available player positions:

• Before Content
• After Content
• Top Fixed
• Bottom Fixed
• Before Title
• After Title
• Shortcode [speaker]

IMPORTANT

Some themes may have problems displaying the player in Before Title and After Title positions. Switch plugin to other position in such cases.

You can easily add the Speaker WordPress Plugin player anywhere on the page using the shortcode [speaker]And you can also show the player with an audio recording of another post, for this use the shortcode [speaker id=PAGEID] PAGEID is the id of the page of the audio version of which you want to use in the player.

You can find out the page ID in the address bar during editing or from the page code.

Style

The plugin has five player styles that you can use on the website pages. You can also customize any of the presented player templates with CSS.

ROUND PLAYER

Core WordPress player with round edges:

ROUNDED PLAYER

Core WordPress player with rounded corner:

SQUARED PLAYER

Core WordPress player with right angles and straight edges:

WORDPRESS DEFAULT PLAYER

Regular WordPress audio player:

BROWSER DEFAULT PLAYER

Default browser player without any styles and scripts. The appearance of the player is different in difаerent browser:

Please note that when choosing a Browser Default Player, a standard WordPress player will be disabled on your site. This will have an effect for all players on all pages of your site.

To fine-tune the design of the player, use the CSS class .mdp-speaker-box

Background color

This setting allows setting the background color of the player. This is possible for all modes except WordPress Default Player and Browser Default Player

Download link

The setting determines how to display the download link. You can choose one of these options:

• Do not show
• Backend Only
• Frontend Only
• Backend and Frontend

Post Types(from version 3.0)

A new tab that contains settings of choosing the types of posts for audio generation and applying speech template as default for every post type.

Post Types

Select the post types, including custom post types to work with the Speaker. The available types are in the drop-down list. Once new post types are added to your site, they will be displayed in the list.

Speach Templates

The settings section allows you to apply Speech Templates as default for each of the post types that you select in the Post types field. You can create a new Speech Templates when editing or creating a page/post.

Save Changes

Do not forget to click Save Changes after changing plugin settings. After clicking this button, the settings will be saved and applied to all pages of the website.

Now you can proceed to use the plugin on the pages of your WordPress website. Please read the article Converting WordPress page to speech and Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) in the Speaker WordPress plugin.

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