Joshua Goodwin

<p>Some WordPress audio plugins inject JavaScript into every page of your website, even pages that don’t have any audio on them. PlayPress doesn’t need any JavaScript.</p>
<p>Other plugins rely on Adobe’s displeasing Flash technology. PlayPress can fall back or default to HTML5 audio – without any JavaScript voodoo wizardry.</p>
<p>Other plugins can play videos and make you tea. PlayPress has a laser focus on just one thing: it lets you put an audio player in blog posts and pages.</p>
<p>You use a standard WordPress shortcode like this:</p>
<pre><code>[audio mp3="http://example.com/bells.mp3" ogg="http://example.com/bells.ogg"]
</code></pre>
<p>Users of most modern browsers will see a native HTML5 audio player. In older browsers, an adequate Flash-based one will be shown.</p>
<p>You don’t even need an Ogg Vorbis file:</p>
<pre><code>[audio mp3="http://example.com/bells.mp3"]
</code></pre>
<p>In this case, PlayPress will first attempt to show the Flash player. If Flash isn’t installed, readers will see the HTML5 audio player – but it won’t work in Firefox or Opera. (Most Firefox and Opera users should have Flash installed.)</p>
<p>In either case, if neither Flash nor HTML5 are supported by the browser, users will see a link to download the audio file. Graceful degradation.</p>
<p>Optionally, specify a title and/or artist for display in the Flash player (this will override the ID3 metadata embedded in your MP3 file, which is otherwise used if present):</p>
<pre><code>[audio mp3="http://example.com/bells.mp3" title="Imagine" artist="John Lennon"]
</code></pre>
<p><a href="https://joshuagoodw.in/playpress" rel="nofollow ugc">The author’s website</a> has PlayPress running live right there on it.</p>


PlayPress

PlayPress is a JavaScript-free, low-Flash audio player, fortified with HTML5.

caseysoftware

<p>The Podcast Searcher plugin uses <a href="http://Clarify.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Clarify’s</a> technology to make audio and video searchable.  It uses automatic speech recognition to extract spoken English, Spanish, and French and lets you retrieve detailed information about your media with simple API calls. Getting started takes minutes.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Minimal setup: Adds search to your podcast without any additional plugins or custom theming required.</li>
<li>Simple to Use: You just add the link to your podcast as you’ve always done. We handle the rest.</li>
<li>No transcripts: Lets you skip the expensive and time-consuming step of getting transcripts.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Now whenever you add a URL to your audio or video file – either by directly copy/pasting the url into the post or using a media embed – it will automatically be sent to Clarify for indexing.</p>
<p>Once the file is done processing, using your on-site search will return results describing where your word is heard in the audio down to the second. If you’re using the default embed/shortcode, these mentions will be clickable and jump you directly to that spot in the audio or video.</p>
<h4>Further Usage</h4>
<p>If you have archives with media – audio or video – already embedded, this plugin will not automatically index it for you. We didn’t want to surprise you with a massive bill. Instead, just open any of your old posts and re-save them. No editing or changes required. The media will get processed just like any other media.</p>
<h4>Housekeeping</h4>
<p>While this is hosted in WordPress’ SVN repository, no development is performed there. For the latest and greatest development version, check out the Github repository: https://github.com/Clarify/wp-clarify</p>


Podcast Searcher by Clarify

The Clarify plugin allows you to make any audio or video embedded in your posts, pages, etc searchable via the standard WordPress search box.

PlayPress vs Podcast Searcher by Clarify