webinista

Webinista WreadIt <a href="https://wreadit.webinista.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://wreadit.webinista.com</a>
A WordPress plugin for creating audio versions of your posts using Amazon Polly.
Current version: v1.2.0 <a href="https://github.com/webinista/webinista-wreadit/releases/" rel="nofollow ugc">See all releases</a>.
You can also view, edit, or download the <a href="https://github.com/webinista/webinista-wreadit/" rel="nofollow ugc">source code</a> from GitHub.
<h4>License</h4>
Webinista WreadIt is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3. Some of its dependencies use the MIT 2.0 and Apache 2.0 licenses.
<pre><code>This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
</code></pre>
<h4>Prerequisites</h4>
This plugin assumes that you are familiar with <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Amazon Web Services</a> and that you have an account. You will need:
<ul>
<li>An Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket.</li>
<li>An IAM user with full access to Polly and read/write access to the S3 bucket.</li>
<li>A key ID and Secret Access Key for the IAM user.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Development</h3>
You can also build this plugin from source. This requires having <a href="https://nodejs.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Node</a>, PHP, and <a href="https://getcomposer.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Composer</a> available on your system.
<ol>
<li>Clone the GitHub repo https://github.com/webinista/webinista-wreadit</li>
<li>From <code>webinista-wreadit</code> directory, run the following commands:
<ol>
<li><code>npm install</code> to install the JavaScript dependencies for the front-end.</li>
<li><code>composer install</code> to install PHP dependencies. You may also need to install the <a href="https://github.com/humbug/php-scoper/blob/main/docs/installation.md#composer" rel="nofollow ugc">php-scoper plugin</a> using <code>composer bin php-scoper require --dev humbug/php-scoper</code>.</li>
<li>Run the <code>build-wreadit-aws3.sh</code> script. This script downloads the latest version of the AWS SDK for PHP, extracts the relevant interfaces and common files, and scopes it to the project’s name space.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Use <code>npm run build</code> to generate the front-end plugin files.</li>
<li>Upload the <code>webinista-wreadit</code> directory to <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code>.</li>
</ol>
Activate the plugin and add your credentials before using.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to Amazon Polly, and Amazon S3. Clicking the Generate Audio Version button sends the following data to Amazon Polly:
<ul>
<li>The title and text of the blog post.</li>
<li>The slug of the blog post.</li>
<li>The display name of the post’s author. (Manage using the Display name publicly as setting on the Edit User screen.)</li>
<li>Your AWS Key ID.</li>
<li>Your Secret Access Key.</li>
<li>The name of your S3 bucket.</li>
</ul>
Read Amazon’s <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/polly/faqs/#topic-2" rel="nofollow ugc">Polly FAQs</a>, 
general <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/" rel="nofollow ugc">Data Privacy FAQs</a>, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">AWS Privacy Notice</a> to understand how Amazon uses your data. Read the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/" rel="nofollow ugc">AWS Customer Agreement</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">AWS Service Terms</a> to understand your rights and obligations with regard to Amazon’s services.
Amazon Polly requires your Key ID and Secret Access Key in order to authenticate the request. Amazon Polly saves the generated audio file to your S3 bucket.
Webinista WreadIt uses <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html" rel="nofollow ugc">S3’s virtual hosting</a>. URLs for audio files use the pattern shown below, unless you’ve set a custom domain.
<pre><code>https://<bucket name>.s3.<region code>.amazonaws.com/<your optional prefix/><file name>
</code></pre>
For example, if your bucket name is <code>myblogsaudio</code>, your bucket region is <code>us-east-2</code>, and you’ve set a <code>media/</code> prefix, your audio URLs will begin with <code>https://myblogsaudio.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/media/</code>.
File names begin with the slug of each blog post. Amazon Polly also appends a unique identifier to the name.
Audio files must be publicly readable to be available to your listeners.

Webinista WreadIt

A text-to-speech plugin for WordPress that uses Amazon Polly.

talkify

Talkify Text to speech WordPress plugin brings voice features to your WP blog and website. This very easy to use plugin adds a voice to any WP page in minutes. 
Take full control over speech attributes such as rate, pitch and volume. Mix and match voices to add richness to dialogues. Control tone, phonation and pauses to add depth to any content. Why not use a child voice for content aimed at children? 
Choose between hundreds of voices in the following languages (we support many cultures in most languages).
English, Chinese, Swedish, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, Norweigean, Danish, Arabic, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Icelandic, Portuguese, Romanian, Welsh, Ukranian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malay, Slovenian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam
Features
<ul>
<li>Listen to any post or page, either automatically or through a click on a button</li>
<li>High qualiy voices (https://manage.talkify.net/docs#voices)</li>
<li>Text highligting, or speech marks, for easy read along</li>
<li>Control pitch, pauses between words, volume, speech rate, phonation and much more</li>
<li>Choose between 4 different UIs</li>
<li>Our fully integrated UIs let users control all aspects of playback</li>
<li>A block component, “talkify button”, comes with this plugin. Configure this button to do magic!</li>
<li>Declarative (data-attributes) configuration to enable rich dialogues between 2 or more voices. <a href="https://github.com/Hagsten/Talkify#declarative-settings" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs here</a></li>
<li>1000 free requests per month. </li>
</ul>
Documentation and demo
<a href="https://github.com/Hagsten/Talkify" rel="nofollow ugc">Talkify on Github</a> 
<a href="https://talkify.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Talkify website</a> 
<a href="https://talkify.net/web-reader-read-any-website-aloud" rel="nofollow ugc">See Talkify in action</a> 
<a href="https://manage.talkify.net/docs" rel="nofollow ugc">Available voices, pricing and other documentation</a>
Usage
<ol>
<li>Acquire your API-key at https://manage.talkify.net (login and copy the key, paste it under the general configuration section in WP)</li>
<li>Add the “Talkify” button (block control) anywhere on your page. Yes, you can even add multiple buttons on the page, if you want to. Each individually configurable.</li>
<li>Configure it</li>
<li>Hit update. Voila!</li>
</ol>
Check out our screenshots for a better understanding on how you can configure your button

Talkify Text To Speech

Talkify Text to speech is the best online Text to speech solution for blogs, articles and more. 400 voices in over 50 languages at your fingertips.

Webinista WreadIt vs Talkify Text To Speech