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KudoMetrics AI Text to Speech<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n

Best of all, this Free plugin works immediately out of the box<\/strong>. There are zero API keys to copy, zero monthly fees, and no sign-up forms required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83c\udf1f Why Add Audio to Your Blog Posts?<\/h3>\n\n
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  • Keep Visitors on Your Website Longer<\/strong>: When visitors listen to your articles, they stay on your site for minutes instead of seconds.<\/li>\n
  • Help Busy Readers<\/strong>: People who don't have time to read long text can simply press play and listen.<\/li>\n
  • Better Accessibility<\/strong>: Visitors with visual impairments or learning difficulties can easily enjoy all your articles.<\/li>\n
  • Multi-Tasking Friendly<\/strong>: Your audience can listen on their phone, tablet, or laptop while doing everyday tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    \ud83d\ude80 Free Features Included<\/h3>\n\n
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    • 100% Free Browser Web Speech<\/strong>: Speaks articles out loud directly in the visitor's browser. Works instantly on mobile phones, tablets, and computers.<\/li>\n
    • Zero Setup Required<\/strong>: No complex settings, no credit card, and no API keys needed. Install, activate, and you are ready!<\/li>\n
    • Beautiful Audio Player<\/strong>: Clean, mobile-friendly audio player with play\/pause button, progress seek bar, and listening time counter.<\/li>\n
    • Adjustable Listening Speed<\/strong>: Readers can choose their preferred speed (0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x) to finish articles faster.<\/li>\n
    • Volume and Mute Controls<\/strong>: Easy volume slider and one-click mute button.<\/li>\n
    • Multiple Player Themes<\/strong>: Choose from Clean White (Light Mode), Dark Modern (Night Mode), Compact Mini-Bar, or Soft Card.<\/li>\n
    • Automatic Placement<\/strong>: Choose to show the audio player above your article, below your content, or insert it anywhere using a simple shortcode: [ai_tts_player]<\/code>.<\/li>\n
    • Automatic Publishing Support<\/strong>: Make the audio player ready automatically whenever you publish a new article.<\/li>\n
    • Safe Local Storage<\/strong>: Audio files are safely stored inside your WordPress uploads folder (wp-content\/uploads\/kudometrics-tts\/<\/code>).<\/li>\n
    • Clean Database Guarantee<\/strong>: Optional setting to clean up all data if the plugin is ever removed, keeping your WordPress database fast and clean.<\/li>\n
    • 100% Privacy-Friendly<\/strong>: We do not collect personal data, track your visitors, or use tracking cookies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      \ud83d\udc51 Need Cloud AI Voices? Upgrade to Pro!<\/h3>\n\n

      If you want ultra-realistic cloud voices and automated cloud storage, check out KudoMetrics AI Text to Speech Pro<\/strong> (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Ollama are Pro features):<\/p>\n\n

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      • OpenAI Audio Voices (Pro)<\/strong>: Connect your OpenAI key to use natural voices (alloy<\/code>, echo<\/code>, fable<\/code>, onyx<\/code>, nova<\/code>, shimmer<\/code>).<\/li>\n
      • ElevenLabs Voices (Pro)<\/strong>: High-fidelity human-like voices powered by ElevenLabs.<\/li>\n
      • Self-Hosted Ollama (Pro)<\/strong>: 100% private speech generation with your own Ollama server.<\/li>\n
      • Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure & AWS Polly (Pro)<\/strong>: Connect your favorite cloud providers.<\/li>\n
      • Cloud Storage Offloading (Pro)<\/strong>: Save server storage by offloading MP3 audio to Amazon S3<\/strong> or Cloudflare R2<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
      • Bulk Audio Generation (Pro)<\/strong>: Convert hundreds of existing articles into audio in the background with a single click.<\/li>\n
      • Listening Analytics (Pro)<\/strong>: See how many people listened to your articles and average listen duration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n

        Installing KudoMetrics AI Text to Speech takes less than 2 minutes:<\/p>\n\n

          \n
        1. In your WordPress admin dashboard, go to Plugins -> Add New<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
        2. Search for KudoMetrics AI Text to Speech<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
        3. Click Install Now<\/strong>, and then click Activate<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
        4. Go to Settings -> AI TTS Player<\/strong> to pick your favorite player theme and choose which pages to show audio on.<\/li>\n
        5. Visit any blog post on your site to see your brand-new audio player in action!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
          \n

          Is this plugin really 100% free?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

          Yes! The Free Browser Voice feature uses the speech technology built into every modern web browser (Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge). It is completely free forever with no limits and no fees.<\/p><\/dd>\n

          Do I need to create an external account or enter API keys?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

          No. The free plugin requires zero accounts, zero sign-ups, and zero API keys. It works right away as soon as you activate it.<\/p><\/dd>\n

          Can visitors listen to audio on mobile phones?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

          Yes! The audio player is fully responsive and works smoothly on iPhones, iPads, Android phones, tablets, and desktop computers.<\/p><\/dd>\n

          Where can I place the audio player on my posts?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

          You can automatically place it above the post content, below the content, or insert it anywhere inside your post using the shortcode:\n [ai_tts_player]<\/p><\/dd>\n

          Can I change the listening speed?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

          Yes! Visitors can choose from 5 listening speeds: 0.75x, 1x (normal), 1.25x, 1.5x, or 2x.<\/p><\/dd>\n

          Does this plugin slow down my website?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

          Not at all. The plugin is super lightweight (less than 50 KB), uses vanilla CSS and JavaScript, and loads only on the pages where you enable the audio player.<\/p><\/dd>\n

          Does this plugin track my visitors?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

          No. We respect user privacy. This plugin does not collect telemetry, track your visitors, or set tracking cookies.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n

          1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n
            \n
          • Plugin description: Updated the description to show that OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Ollama are Pro features.<\/li>\n
          • Security: Sanitized the $_POST data before passing it to the extension hook.<\/li>\n
          • Contributor: Changed the Readme username from kudometrics to kudometricsllc.<\/li>\n
          • Initial public release on WordPress.org.<\/li>\n
          • Convert blog posts and pages into natural speech with one click.<\/li>\n
          • 100% Free Browser Web Speech synthesis support with zero API keys required.<\/li>\n
          • Audio player and listen buttons for posts and pages.<\/li>\n
          • Customizable audio player themes, listening speeds, volume, and positioning.<\/li>\n
          • Safe local storage in WordPress media library.<\/li>\n
          • Full integration with Gutenberg editor and Classic Editor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Turn your written blog posts into natural audio so visitors can listen with one click. 100% Free forever with zero setup or API keys needed.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/395604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395604"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/kudometricsllc"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=395604"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=395604"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=395604"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=395604"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=395604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}