About this plugin
KudoMetrics AI Text to Speech turns your written blog posts and articles into natural speech audio so your website visitors can listen with a single click. Includes customizable audio player, listen buttons, and local storage.
Many people prefer listening to articles while driving, cooking, walking, or multitasking. By adding an audio player to your website, you make your content accessible to everyone, keep visitors on your website much longer, and give your readers a modern, podcast-style experience!
Best of all, this Free plugin works immediately out of the box. There are zero API keys to copy, zero monthly fees, and no sign-up forms required.
🌟 Why Add Audio to Your Blog Posts?
- Keep Visitors on Your Website Longer: When visitors listen to your articles, they stay on your site for minutes instead of seconds.
- Help Busy Readers: People who don’t have time to read long text can simply press play and listen.
- Better Accessibility: Visitors with visual impairments or learning difficulties can easily enjoy all your articles.
- Multi-Tasking Friendly: Your audience can listen on their phone, tablet, or laptop while doing everyday tasks.
🚀 Free Features Included
- 100% Free Browser Web Speech: Speaks articles out loud directly in the visitor’s browser. Works instantly on mobile phones, tablets, and computers.
- Zero Setup Required: No complex settings, no credit card, and no API keys needed. Install, activate, and you are ready!
- Beautiful Audio Player: Clean, mobile-friendly audio player with play/pause button, progress seek bar, and listening time counter.
- Adjustable Listening Speed: Readers can choose their preferred speed (0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x) to finish articles faster.
- Volume and Mute Controls: Easy volume slider and one-click mute button.
- Multiple Player Themes: Choose from Clean White (Light Mode), Dark Modern (Night Mode), Compact Mini-Bar, or Soft Card.
- Automatic Placement: Choose to show the audio player above your article, below your content, or insert it anywhere using a simple shortcode: [ai_tts_player].
- Automatic Publishing Support: Make the audio player ready automatically whenever you publish a new article.
- Safe Local Storage: Audio files are safely stored inside your WordPress uploads folder ( wp-content/uploads/kudometrics-tts/ ).
- Clean Database Guarantee: Optional setting to clean up all data if the plugin is ever removed, keeping your WordPress database fast and clean.
- 100% Privacy-Friendly: We do not collect personal data, track your visitors, or use tracking cookies.
👑 Need Cloud AI Voices? Upgrade to Pro!
If you want ultra-realistic cloud voices and automated cloud storage, check out KudoMetrics AI Text to Speech Pro (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Ollama are Pro features):
- OpenAI Audio Voices (Pro): Connect your OpenAI key to use natural voices ( alloy, echo, fable, onyx, nova, shimmer ).
- ElevenLabs Voices (Pro): High-fidelity human-like voices powered by ElevenLabs.
- Self-Hosted Ollama (Pro): 100% private speech generation with your own Ollama server.
- Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure & AWS Polly (Pro): Connect your favorite cloud providers.
- Cloud Storage Offloading (Pro): Save server storage by offloading MP3 audio to Amazon S3 or Cloudflare R2.
- Bulk Audio Generation (Pro): Convert hundreds of existing articles into audio in the background with a single click.
- Listening Analytics (Pro): See how many people listened to your articles and average listen duration.