Voicer - Text to Speech Plugin for WordPress

Voicer converts text into human-like speech in more than 175 voices across 30+ languages and variants

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The Voicer WordPress Plugin designed to converts text into human-like speech. The Plugin uses the latest technology of machine learning and artificial intelligence to play a high-quality human voice. The basis of the Plugin is the Google Cloud Platform, which ensures the reliability and speed of the Plugin anywhere in the world.

The Voicer WordPress Plugin converts text into human-like speech in more than 175 voices across 30+ languages and variants. It applies groundbreaking research in speech synthesis (WaveNet) and Google’s robust neural networks to deliver high-fidelity audio. With this easy-to-use Plugin, you can create lifelike interactions with your users that transform customer service, device interaction.

Voicer WordPress Plugin works great with all popular themes
Works great with all popular themes
Voicer is powered by Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API
Powered by Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API
More than 175 voices across 30+ languages
More than 175 voices across 30+ languages
Assignment interface for any entity
Assignment interface for any entity
Voicer is fully compatible with WordPress Gutenberg Editor
Fully compatible with WordPress Gutenberg Editor
Voicer WordPress Plugin Completely Cross-Browser Support
Completely Cross-Browser Support
Minified & optimized native JS without jQuery
Minified & optimized native JS without jQuery
Muting for any piece of content
Muting for any piece of content
Pauses of variable duration anywhere in the post
Pauses of variable duration anywhere in the post
Voicer is suitable for all kind of layouts and templates
Suitable for all kind of layouts and templates
Modern User Interface
Modern User Interface

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

Voicer WordPress 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 the features of this plugin from the article Voicer Plugin Settings

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.zipThere 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

Add New Plugin to WordPress
Add New Plugin to WordPress
STEP 3

Click Upload Plugin Button

Upload New Plugin to WordPress
Upload New Plugin to WordPress
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

Activate Installed Plugin

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.

Activate Installed Plugin

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 Voicer WordPress Plugin converts text into human-like speech in more than 190 voices across 30+ languages and variants. It applies groundbreaking research in speech synthesis (WaveNet) and Google’s robust neural networks to deliver high-fidelity audio.

NOTE

This article was created for the plugin version 2.0 and higher. If you are using the first generation Voicer plugin, check out prevous Voicer Settings artice.

Installing of the Voicer WordPress plugin

To install the plugin, read the article Installing WordPress Plugin. Installing the plugin takes only a few seconds.

To open the plugin settings slick Settings below plugin name on the plugins page

Voicer on the plugins page
Voicer on the plugins page

or in the WordPress Sidebar menu go to Voicer

Voicer in the WordPress sidebar
Voicer in the WordPress sidebar

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

General settings

API Key File

When you first run the plugin, you need to connect the Key File. How to get the Key File you can find out from the article About Key File for the Voicer WordPress Plugin

Now used

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

Now used preview
Now used player

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.

The Voicer voice list
The Voicer voice list

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 speech. 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

Design Settings

 

NOTE

Please choose contrasting background / icon color combinations.

Background Color

With this setting, you can select the background color of the player tooltip.

Icon Color

This setting is used to select the color of the icon.

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.

SSML

Starting with version 2.0, new features of SSML(Speech Synthesis Markup Language) were added to the plugin. Find out more about SSML features in Voicer WordPress plugin.


Additional customization

Use CSS сclass mdp-voicer-selection to fine-tune the tooltip styling, resize the icon, add a frame, and more.

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