retell

Retell is a service for automatically generating audio versions of articles for newsrooms.
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<li>Preliminary advertising audios for monetization;</li>
<li>Highest sound quality TTS;</li>
<li>More than 100 super-realistic voices in 33 languages of the world;</li>
<li>Support for Yandex turbo pages and Google AMP pages;</li>
<li>Analytics system for listening to top content in real-time;</li>
<li>Formation of podcasts and uploading to platforms: Apple Podcasts, Yandex.Music, Spotify, and others.</li>
</ul>
Reduce churn and increase engagement of visitors who do not have the ability to read content, offer your audience a more convenient way to consume content on the go, during classes with Retell.
<h3>How to connect</h3>
No complicated connection. All articles are read automatically, the text for reading is taken from your RSS feed (which is automatically generated by this plugin). The player itself will understand that the article needs to be read.
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<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Register at https://retell.cc/</li>
<li>Add your site</li>
</ol>
Your articles are now available in audio.
<h3>High quality text-to-speech</h3>
Before creating an audio version of your articles, Retell processes all your text through its own SSML tagging system, marking problem areas, forms the correct pronunciation and stress in words, adds human intonation with punctuation, which allows us to achieve the highest sound quality of any TTS.
<h3>Podcasts</h3>
Develop a new content format on podcast platforms (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play), set up an RSS feed for platforms and promote your content to a new audience.
<h3>Monetization</h3>
Place audio ads through promotions before and after audio through your personal account. This opportunity will diversify the media kit of the resource, will allow you to stand out from the background of your competitors, offering a new ad format for your advertisers. Instant access to the growing market of audio advertising worth 1 billion rubles, which is growing every year.
<h3>Flexible payment system</h3>
Pay only for the content you publish. Our system will be able to automatically calculate your monthly rate based on the average number of publications per month and their average length. Then you get the required number of characters for voice acting.
<h3>Analyze</h3>
View and analyze your content listening statistics. In the Retell dashboard, you can get data for a week, a day or all the time, for all the necessary metrics: listening by device, percentage of listenings, average listening time. Identify the most popular articles and optimize your media plan for even more reach.

Retell

Retell is a service for automatically generating audio versions of articles for newsrooms.

Freemius

Igor Benic

Simple Sponsorships is a complete Sponsorships manager plugin where you can:
<ul>
<li>accept sponsor requests</li>
<li>receive payments from approved sponsorships</li>
<li>manage and display Sponsors</li>
<li>create different sponsorship packages</li>
</ul>
If you want to handle payments differently, you can disable them and instruct sponsors with detailed information on how you will accept payments.
This plugin can help you manage your sponsors, sponsor requests and all other related sponsor data.
How this plugin works?
<ol>
<li>A potential sponsor comes to your page. It goes to the Sponsor Page (it will create a /sponsor page),</li>
<li>Fills the Sponsor Form and you get an email,</li>
<li>A Sponsorship is created which you can then approve or reject,</li>
<li>Once the Sponsorship is approved, the Sponsor is created from the provided information,</li>
<li>If you want to accept payments through your site, you can use PayPal and the Sponsor will use it to pay for Sponsorship,</li>
<li>Once paid, the Sponsorship will become active and the Sponsor can be added to a content</li>
</ol>
Simple Sponsorships, to handle Sponsors, is composed of different types of data:
<ul>
<li>Sponsors – can have more than 1 sponsorship. Edited and managed as regular posts, pages and similar,</li>
<li>Sponsorships – connected to a sponsor and a package. Holds payment data,</li>
<li>Packages – packages are like products in a shop. A sponsor can choose a package to purchase and then the Sponsorship is created.</li>
</ul>
Use Cases
Podcast Site 
You have a podcast site where you accept Sponsors for your episodes.
Each month has 2 episodes. 1 year (season) has 24 episodes in total. 1 Episode sponsorship is $100.
You don’t accept sponsorships for one episode but you actually have different packages:
<ol>
<li>Half Season: You create a package with a quantity of 12 and the amount of $1200.</li>
<li>Full Season: You create a package with a quantity of 24 and the amount of $2400.</li>
<li>Early-Bird Full Season: You create a package with a quantity of 24 and with a lower amount of $1800.</li>
</ol>
Once a sponsor pays for the Half Season, that sponsor will get an additional available quantity of 12. You can now assign this sponsor to 12 new episodes.
Event/WordCamp Site 
You have a WordCamp site where you accept Sponsors for the WordCamp, a single event.
There are different ways people can sponsor your event and what they get for it.
So here are some of the sponsorship packages you can create
<ol>
<li>Platinum: enter and explain this package. This sponsorship is a huge one and it will give the most exposure. The quantity is 1 and the amount is $5000.</li>
<li>Gold: Gold sponsor has less exposure than platinum but still, they even get a place in the WordCamp venue where they can show what they do. Quantity is 1 and the amount is $2000.</li>
<li>Freelancer: This sponsorship package is suited for people who want to get a little more exposure in the Thank you note of the WordCamp. The Quantity is 1 and the amount is $150.</li>
</ol>
Each sponsor will get an additional available quantity of 1, but you can still show them anywhere with the shortcodes. Since this sponsorships are global on the whole event, you don’t have to assign them to a content.
Planned Features
Some of the planned features to be implemented soon:
<ul>
<li>Package availability – option to disable a package from being purchased anymore. Still active, but can’t be purchased anymore.</li>
<li>Ability to add more packages to a single sponsorship (Sponsor can choose more than 1 package option)</li>
<li>Add more gateways</li>
<li>Setup Wizard – for a better 1st time setup</li>
</ul>

Simple Sponsorships

This plugin makes it very easy to setup a place where people can sponsor my  podcast. The sponsor requests are easy to manage in the WP dashboard. 

Great job!



Great way to self-host sponsors for your podcast!

It's a nice plugin and the free version does everything I need. Even the payment methods! 

Really nice plugin

Accept Sponsorships for any type of site, event or product. Manage & Display Sponsors.

Retell vs Simple Sponsorships