The Speaker WordPress Plugin converts post or webpage into human-like speech in more than 175 voices across 35+ languages and variants. It applies groundbreaking research in speech synthesis (WaveNet) and Google’s robust neural networks to deliver high-fidelity audio.
Notes
This manual was created for plugins version 1.^.^ . Use the Speaker 2.0+ settings manual if you use plugins with version number starts from 2
To open the plugin settings in the WordPress Sidebar menu go to Settings -> Speaker
In the plugin settings, there are several tabs responsible for various groups of plugin settings.
Voice Settings
API Key File
When you first run the plugin, you need to connect the Key File. How to get the Key File you can learn from the article About Key File for the Speaker & Voicer WordPress Plugins
Language
Using the filter, you can choose from the table the voices you need. After selecting a language, you can filter the table by voice type and gender.
You can also listen to the Supported Google Voices and Languages in the Google Cloud Documentation. To select and activate a voice, click on the row in the table.
The selected voice will be highlighted in blue.
Speaking Rate/Speed
This setting changes the voice playback speed. The smaller the number, the slower the synthesized voice will speak, and the more the amount will be, the faster will be the speaker.
Audio Profile
You can optimize the synthetic speech produced by Cloud Text-to-Speech API for playback on different types of hardware. For example, if your app runs primarily on smaller, ‘wearable’ types of devices, you can create a synthetic speech from Cloud Text-to-Speech API that is optimized specifically for smaller speakers.
Design Settings
Player position
You can select one of the available player positions:
- Before Content
- After Content
- Top Fixed
- Bottom Fixed
- Before Title
- After Title
- Shortcode
Important
Some themes may have problems displaying the player in Before Title and After Title positions. Switch plugin to other position in such cases.
You can easily add the Speaker WordPress Plugin player anywhere on the page using the shortcode [speaker]And you can also show the player with an audio recording of another post, for this use the shortcode [speaker id=PAGEID] PAGEID is the id of the page of the audio version of which you want to use in the player.
You can find out the page ID in the address bar during editing or from the page code.
Style
The plugin has five player styles that you can use on the website pages. You can also customize any of the presented player templates with CSS.
Round Player
Core WordPress player with round edges:
Rounded Player
Core WordPress player with rounded corner:
Squared Player
Core WordPress player with right angles and straight edges:
WordPress Default Player
Regular WordPress audio player:
Browser Default Player
Default browser player without any styles and scripts. The appearance of the player is different in difаerent browser:
Please note that when choosing a Browser Default Player, a standard WordPress player will be disabled on your site. This will have an effect for all players on all pages of your site.
To fine-tune the design of the player, use the CSS class .mdp-speaker-box
Background color
This setting allows setting the background color of the player. This is possible for all modes except WordPress Default Player and Browser Default Player
Assignments
By selecting the specific assignments you can limit where progress bar should or shouldn’t be published. To have it published on all pages, simply do not specify any assignments.
To find out how the Assignments works in this and other plugins work, see the article Assignments in WordPress plugin.
Save Changes
Do not forget to click Save Changes after changing plugin settings. After clicking this button, the settings will be saved and applied to all pages of the website.
Also, please read the article on converting the article to audio.
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