Weston Ruter

<p>This plugin allows you to create text-to-speech podcasts of your posts, with the content from embedded URLs supplied by Readability’s Parser API. It aims to be a open self-hosted re-incarnation of defunct <a href="http://soundgecko.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">SoundGecko</a> service.</p>
<p>When a <a href="https://www.readability.com/developers/api/parser" rel="nofollow ugc">Readability Parser API</a> key is supplied, a post which gets saved with a bare URL as its content will have this content prepended with the content that Readability extracts from the page at that URL. This allows you to import an article’s full contents into your podcast just by saving a post with a URL in its content (e.g. by sharing an article URL to your blog via Jetpack’s <a href="http://jetpack.me/support/post-by-email/" rel="nofollow ugc">post by email</a>).</p>
<p>In addition to supplying a URL for the content you want in the podcast, you can also just add the content directly to the post itself without any corresponding article URL, and this content will be converted to TTS (text-to-speech) audio instead. You can also, of course, attach an MP3 to a post and it will be used for the podcast instead of TTS-generated audio from the post content or enclosed URL.</p>
<p>The TTS audio is generated by a Mac regularly connected to the Internet (e.g. your Mac). It generates the article audio MP3 using the OS X <code>say</code> command. You can configure the voice and the rate for the speech audio generated. (Use of the OS X voice is not required; an alternative TTS solution may be devised instead.) The MP3 gets attached to its corresponding post, being prepended to the post content by means of an <code>audio</code> shortcode.</p>
<p>A new <code>listenability</code> permalink endpoint is introduced which contains the text content of a given post presented in a textual form which can be ready by a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. It is specifically designed to be read by the speech synthesis engine in OS X as it includes <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/FineTuning/FineTuning.html" rel="nofollow ugc">embedded speech commands</a>. The RSS2 feed includes a new <code>enclosure</code> element containing the URL for this endpoint with the ad hoc content type <code>text/plain+embedded-speech-commands</code>.</p>
<h4>Restrictions</h4>
<p>Note that the Readability Parser API is freely available for <em>non-commercial use</em>. The article content fetched by Readability and inserted into your posts is copyrighted by their respective authors (attribution gets included in the post content). Likewise, the speech audio generated by OS X is for <a href="http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/43300/28836" rel="nofollow ugc">personal, non-commercial use</a>. It is therefore key that there be <em>no advertising</em> employed on the WordPress install that uses this plugin. Because of the non-commercial and personal usage imposed by these dependencies, it is recommended that this plugin be used on your own personal dedicated podcast blog that is set to block search engines, that is unless you have obtained a commercial Readability license and are not using TTS audio generated by OS X.</p>
<h4>Dependencies</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.readability.com/developers/api/parser" rel="nofollow ugc">Readability Parser API</a> key. This can also be supplied in <code>wp-config.php</code> via the <code>READABILITY_PARSER_API_KEY</code> constant.</li>
<li>Mac computer (OS X) that is regularly connected to the Internet (e.g. your computer), with <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">SoX</a> installed (e.g. via <a href="http://brew.sh/" rel="nofollow ugc">Homebrew</a>).</li>
<li>(Optional) <a href="http://jetpack.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jetpack</a> plugin, for the <a href="http://jetpack.me/support/post-by-email/" rel="nofollow ugc">Post by Email</a> feature.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Extensions</h4>
<p>The plugin includes actions and filters primarily for customizing the formatting of the text for the text-to-speech engine. You may use these hooks to improve how the TTS engine reads the text on a given site, for instance by stripping out footnotes or removing image captions. For an example of such a plugin, see the <a href="https://gist.github.com/westonruter/dfaa45b026a2bb6a36e0" rel="nofollow ugc">sample plugin which improves formatting of Wikipedia articles</a>.</p>
<p>See the <a href="https://github.com/westonruter/wp-listenability/tree/master/php" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin source code</a> to see which additional plugin hooks are available.</p>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<p>This plugin is <a href="https://github.com/westonruter/wp-listenability" rel="nofollow ugc">developed on GitHub</a>. Report <a href="https://github.com/westonruter/wp-listenability/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues</a> there. <a href="https://github.com/westonruter/wp-listenability/pulls" rel="nofollow ugc">Pull requests</a> welcome.</p>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>GPLv2 license. Copyright 2015 by Weston Ruter.</p>


Listenability

Create a text-to-speech podcast of your posts, with the content from embedded URLs supplied by Readability. Open re-incarnation of SoundGecko.

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RelyWP

Elliot Sowersby / RelyWP

<p>A simple plugin that allows you to create an AI generated audio version of your posts, or any other type of content like videos and podcasts, using OpenAI’s Text to Speech API.</p>
<p>When the audio has been generated for a post, an audio player will be displayed automatically at the top of your post, which visitors can listen to.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to create a post, use the admin “AI text-to-speech” generator page instead to generate audio files for other purposes.</p>
<p>This plugin is perfect for bloggers, content creators, businesses, and anyone who wants to generate a realistic audio version of their text and posts.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xhYrnH4LHXk?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Powered by OpenAI’s Text to Speech API.</li>
<li>Easily generate an audio version of your posts on the post editor page.</li>
<li>Quickly generate an audio version of any text on the “AI text-to-speech generator” admin page.</li>
<li>Choose between 10 natural-sounding AI voices for your TTS audio.</li>
<li>Choose between several “voice style” presets to change the tone and style of the generated audio.</li>
<li>Automatically display an audio player at the top of your posts.</li>
<li>Supports text to speech generation for over 50 languages.</li>
<li>Optionally include the post title, author name and post date at the start of the audio.</li>
<li>View a log of the last 50 audio generation API requests.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pro Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Statistics tracking and analytics reporting.</li>
<li>Integration with Dropbox to store generated audio files.</li>
<li>Add custom text before and after the generated audio. This can be done on a global or per post basis.</li>
<li>Fully replace the content used when generating the audio for a post.</li>
<li>Specify how certain words should be pronounced with custom pronunciation settings or shortcodes.</li>
<li>Choose from 20+ additional voice style presets.</li>
<li>Enter your own custom voice style instructions to change the tone and style of the generated audio.</li>
<li>Multi-voice feature to allow multiple voices to be used within a post for different pieces of text.</li>
<li>Choose a default voice to be used when generating audio.</li>
<li>Automatically generate TTS audio for new posts when they are published.</li>
<li>Audio player style customisation settings.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://relywp.com/plugins/ai-text-to-speech/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about the PRO version.</a></p>
<h3>Suggestions and Support</h3>
<p>If you have any suggestions for additional functionality, need any help, or have found a bug, please create a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ai-text-to-speech/#new-topic-0" rel="ugc">support ticket</a>.</p>


AI Text to Speech – TTS Plugin For WordPress

Easily generate a realistic audio version for your content and posts using OpenAI's Text to Speech API.

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