Speaker Page to Speech Plugin for WordPress

Description

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 235 voices across 40+ 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.

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

In the Speaker, you can create custom Speech Templates for each page. In addition, for each type of post in WordPress, a custom Speech Template can be created and used.

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.

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.

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 the Text-to-Speech Plugin

• Visual Speech Template Builder
• Supported SSML for WordPress
• Batch processing WordPress Pages and Posts
• Automatically synthesizing audio after saving the page
• Multiple voices and languages on the single page
• Custom pauses and intonation
• Fully supported of Custom WordPress Post Formats
• 40+ Languages Includes
• More than 235 human-like voices
• Customizable speech speed and pitch for each voice
• Custom audio Intro and Outro
• Includes addon for Elementor & widget for WPBakery
• 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.

Notes

Please note, for the correct plugin works you need authorization by valid Google Account.

Release notes

3.0.4 – 18 July 2020
Fixed plugin update and activation issues

3.0.3 – 04 July 2020
Added FOLLOW LOCATION for CURL when parsing.
Added tag to speaker-mute shortcode. Use [speaker-mute tag="span"] to mute a couple of word in a paragraph.

3.0.2 – 02 July 2020
Fixed issue with <script> tags in content.
Improved error and exception processing.
Updated cloud-text-to-speech client libraries.

3.0.1 – 01 July 2020
Improved [speaker-mute] shortcode.
Improved element editor form.
Fixed bulk processing with default speech templates.
Code improvements

3.0.0 – 25 June 2020
Added Custom Post Types Support
Added Speech Template Editor (beta)
Added Elementor widget and WPBakery addon.
Added shortcode [speaker-prosody] to customize the pitch, speaking rate, and volume.
Added shortcode [speaker-say] to say but not show content.
Added Read the Title option
Added Volume Gain control in settings
Added a mirror for customers from Iran and other countries without access to Google Cloud 
Added new rules to Assignments: WordPress Content, Home Page, Menu Items, URL
Added filter speaker_before_synthesis
Added filter speaker_before_part_speak
Added filter speaker_before_adding_watermarks
Added filter speaker_before_voice_divider
Added filter speaker_before_content_dividing
Added filter speaker_before_content_manipulations
Added Drag & Drop API Key uploading
Increased plugin speed
Added new voices (Standard and WaveNet)
Added Custom CSS tab in settings
Updated cloud-text-to-speech client library up to 1.0.1
Fixed multiple voices issue with different sample rates
Improved handling of special characters
Improved parsing mechanism
Improved Multi-sites Support
Improved plugin stability
Improved Security
Code refactoring

2.1.2 – 1 May 2020
Added new language bn-IN, Bengali (বাংলা), with two voices: male and female.
Added new language gu-IN, Gujarati (ગુજરાતી), with two voices: male and female.
Added new language kn-IN, Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), with two voices: male and female.
Added new language ml-IN, Malayalam (മലയാളം), with two voices: male and female.
Added new language ta-IN, Tamil (தமிழ்), with two voices: male and female.
Added new language te-IN, Telugu (తెలుగు), with two voices: male and female.
Added new language th-TH, Thai (ภาษาไทย), with one male voice.

2.1.1 – 28 February 2020
Improved compatibility with automated content creation systems
Fixed bug with synthesizing audio after <!--more-->

2.1.0 – 27 February 2020
Added auto-generation on post update as an option
UI notification and messages improvements
Minor code improvements

2.0.6 – 16 January 2020
Fixed bug with Elementor Builder
Fixed issue with the plugin icon color
Other minor improvements

2.0.5 – 8 December 2019
Added Taiwanese Chinese
Improved HTML entities processing

2.0.4 – 6 December 2019
Improved the Page Processing Algorithm

2.0.3 – 13 November 2019
Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.3

2.0.2 – 8 November 2019
Added plugin update notifications
Moved module Bulk Process to the separate plugin
Fixed missed column name in the WordPress Screen Options
Fixed responsive behavior for the Speaker column
Improved the status tab
Fixed other minor issues

2.0.1 – 2 November 2019
Fixed plugin activation issue

2.0.0 – 1 November 2019
Added Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Added speech synthesis in different voices on one page (voice dialogue)
Added batch processing for WordPress posts and WordPress pages
Added the ability to mute(not voice) pieces of the page
Added the ability to add Intro Phrase to audio
Added the ability to add Outro Phrase to audio
Added the download display preference (Backend/Frontend)
Added pitch and speaking speed settings
Added plugin activation interface
Added the removal settings
Added system requirements check and notices
Improved compatibility with WPBakery Page Builder and Divi Builder
Plugin prepared for PHP 7.3
Moved plugin on the modern User Interface
Multiple minor improvements

7 September 2019 - Version 1.1.1
Hotfix for the Fusion Builder

7 September 2019 - Version 1.1.0
Introduced a new way to process page content
Added compatibility with NextGen Gallery, Fusion Builder, and TablePress
Added compatibility with old plugins

22 August 2019 - Version 1.0.5
Improved compatibility with Divi Page Builder
Fixed broken Documentation link

21 August 2019 - Version 1.0.4
Fixed issue in WPBakery audio player

21 August 2019 - Version 1.0.3
Improved compatibility with WPBakery Page Builder

16 August 2019 - Version 1.0.2
Improved compatibility with Voicer WordPress Plugin

15 August 2019 - Version 1.0.1
Fixed generation large audio files bug
Bug with HTML special characters fixed
Now, when you delete a post, it will be removed and the mp3 attached to it

13 August 2019 - Version 1.0.0
Initial release