Speaker is a powerful text-to-speech plugin for WordPress that converts the content of your pages and articles into human-quality audio narrations. Built on the Google Cloud platform, it uses WaveNet and Neural2 speech synthesis technologies to offer more than 340 natural voices in over 52 languages and variants, ensuring a high-fidelity listening experience for your site's visitors.
This add-on is designed for blogs, online stores, corporate sites, educational platforms, and any web project that wants to expand its reach by offering an audio alternative to traditional reading. It is especially useful for users with reading difficulties, visually impaired individuals, or those who prefer to consume content while doing other tasks.
One of Speaker's most notable features is its full support for the SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) standard, being the only WordPress plugin to offer it comprehensively. This allows precise control over narration: you can add pauses, adjust intonation, format numbers and phone numbers naturally, and even use multiple voices and languages within the same article, ideal for interviews or online language courses.
The plugin includes a visual voice template builder, batch processing to convert all existing pages of your site into audio with just a few clicks, and automatic synthesis when saving each post. It also allows you to customize the introduction and closing of each audio file to maintain a consistent brand identity, as well as adjust the speed and pitch of each voice.
The audio player is fully customizable, with five visual styles and seven placement positions on the page. It includes a shortcode to insert the player anywhere on the site and allows showing audio file download links both on the front-end and back-end. Additionally, Speaker generates an RSS podcast feed compatible with Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify, expanding your content distribution.
The plugin is compatible with major page builders like Elementor, WPBakery, Divi, Beaver Builder, and Gutenberg, as well as popular plugins like Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, and WooCommerce. Its lightweight design and native JavaScript without jQuery ensure optimal performance without affecting site load speed.