GSpeech TTS – WordPress Text To Speech Plugin

GSpeech is a WordPress text-to-speech plugin and a lightweight WordPress text-to-speech bridge that connects your website to the GSpeech Cloud. It converts website content into natural-sounding audio while handling voice generation, storage, smart caching, real-time audio translation, analytics, and playback delivery outside your WordPress hosting environment. Paid AI plans include ultra-realistic voices from OpenAI, Gemini, and Google Cloud. It is a unified audio platform for publishers, bloggers, businesses, WooCommerce stores, and multilingual websites that want to turn written content into listenable multilingual audio without managing external API keys. GSpeech was founded in 2012. In 2023, we introduced the powerful GSpeech Cloud Console, featuring premium AI voices (paid AI plans), multiple player types, real-time audio translation, downloadable audio files, detailed analytics, and full integration with the WordPress Admin Panel.

Yes. GSpeech paid AI plans include OpenAI TTS, Gemini Pro TTS, and Gemini Flash TTS, alongside Google Cloud Text-to-Speech voice families. Select your voice in the GSpeech Cloud Console and use it to narrate WordPress content. The combined AI library includes 300+ voices across 98 languages; language and control availability vary by model. Listen to the current AI voice demo to compare voices using your own text.

No. The free WordPress cloud plan uses machine voices in 68 languages. OpenAI, Gemini, and the premium Google Cloud AI voice library require a paid AI plan. Personal includes 100K AI + 1M machine credits per month. Higher plans also include both AI and machine credits. See current plans for included credits and features.

GSpeech AI plans combine OpenAI, Gemini, and Google Cloud voices with included generation credits, cloud storage, caching, audio players, real-time audio translation (on eligible plans), and support. Credit usage depends on text length and the selected voice's published multiplier. The credit multiplier is displayed for each voice during voice selection. Generating or regenerating audio uses credits; replaying stored audio does not. No separate provider accounts, API keys, or provider bills are required. Features and allowances depend on your plan. See current plans and pricing.

Yes. Buy additional credit packs directly online with one-time or monthly billing. Each pack includes separate AI and machine credit balances. Packs add credits without changing your website plan or unlocking features outside that plan. AI voices in website players require Personal or higher.

No. GSpeech manages the provider connections and billing. AI plans include generation credits, so you do not need separate OpenAI or Google Cloud developer accounts, API keys, or TTS invoices. Premium models may use more credits per character. Replaying a stored audio file does not use new generation credits.

Yes. Supported AI voices offer custom voice prompts and instructions. The Voice Vibes system includes 100+ ready-made expressive voice styles, including warm, calm, confident, narrator, and whisper. Every preset is editable: customize any style to create custom Voice Vibes for your content, tone, and brand voice. These controls guide delivery; available settings depend on the selected voice model. Voice Vibes are styles, not additional voice IDs.

Yes. GSpeech offers real-time audio translation in 98 languages, so visitors can listen to an English article or selected passage in another language, even on a single-language website. The original page stays in English; separate translated pages and a website translation plugin are not required. Choose the listening languages and voices in the Translation tab of your website or player settings. This requires a paid plan that includes audio translation. Learn about selected-text translation.

GSpeech supports a wide range of languages including Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (AI plans), Belarusian (AI plans), Basque (AI plans), Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cantonese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia, UK, India, US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French (Canada, France), Galician (AI plans), German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh (AI plans), Khmer, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian (AI plans), Macedonian (AI plans), Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Maori (AI plans), Myanmar, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian (AI plans), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi – AI plans), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian (AI plans), Spanish (Spain, US), Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yue Chinese (AI plans), Welsh.

GSpeech is one of the best WordPress text-to-speech plugins for website owners who want natural-sounding audio without slowing down their WordPress server. It works as a lightweight bridge to the GSpeech Cloud, with cloud audio generation, smart caching, no API key setup, multilingual audio, modern players, and accessibility-focused features. GSpeech combines ultra-realistic OpenAI and Gemini narration on paid AI plans with Google Cloud voice options, customizable WordPress audio players, cloud generation, and no API key setup. Use the live AI voice demo to evaluate the voices with your own content. It is especially useful for publishers, blogs, WooCommerce stores, long-form content, and multilingual WordPress websites that want to add audio versions of their content quickly.

GSpeech helps WordPress websites improve accessibility by adding listenable audio versions of posts, pages, WooCommerce products, and selected text. This helps visitors with visual impairments, dyslexia, reading difficulties, or listening preferences access your content more easily. Audio content can also increase engagement, time on page, and content consumption signals, creating a richer user experience for both visitors and search engines.

You can find the full installation guide here:\ Implementation Guide.

Yes. The GSpeech 2.X version (included in the same package) provides unlimited text-to-speech usage. For GSpeech 3.X you receive 50,000 characters per month for free. Characters are counted only when audio is generated. Once created, audio files are stored in the cloud and can be played unlimited times.

No. Canceling or downgrading your plan does not delete your audio library. Previously generated audio remains securely stored in the GSpeech Cloud, including after a change to the Free plan. You can play and download your existing .mp3 files from the dashboard at any time. Already generated audio stays playable and is not billed again. Access to voices, new audio generation, automatic regeneration, translation, and other features may vary depending on your current plan.

Your existing audio stays available and playable. Running out of credits does not delete your audio library, and replaying stored files uses no new generation credits. If your AI credits run out, new audio can continue using machine voices while machine credits remain. To generate more AI audio, buy additional credit packs or wait for your monthly credits to renew. New audio generation and regeneration require sufficient credits and a plan that supports the selected voice.

Yes. Back-Catalog Cloud Generation covers posts from past years the same way as new ones. Audio is generated in the GSpeech Cloud when a visitor first requests playback, so you do not pre-generate the entire archive or spend characters on old articles nobody listens to.

Yes. Go to the plugin settings → Design tab and select a theme that matches your website design.

Yes. GSpeech has a flexible architecture and works with posts, pages, and custom post types. Players can be inserted using shortcodes or the multi-page widget. See the Implementation Guide.

After activating the Cloud Console, the required widgets are created automatically. Shortcodes:

1. Full Page Player – [gspeech]
2. Button Player – [gspeech-button]
3. Circle Player – [gspeech-circle]
4. Inline player – {gspeech id=ID}text to speech{/gspeech} (ID = widget ID)
5. GSpeech Player block - Full, Button, or Circle To edit player settings:\ Go to WP-Admin → GSpeech → Cloud Console → Widgets.

The RHT Player improves accessibility by allowing visitors to listen to any selected text on your website. It activates automatically when the plugin and Cloud Console are enabled. Player settings:\ Go to WP-Admin → GSpeech → Cloud Console → Widgets → RHT Player. Available views:

• View 1 – Compact circle player with timeline, volume, and speed controls.
• View 2 (commercial plans) – Expanded player with text and language panels.
• View 3 (commercial plans) – Expanded player with text and translation panels for listening to selected text in another language.

Yes. GSpeech commercial plans include Smart Pronunciation Aliases, allowing you to customize how brand names, acronyms, personal names, abbreviations, and technical terminology are spoken. Aliases can be applied globally, to a language, or to a specific locale. Examples:

• AI:Artificial Intelligence:en
• Generation Z:Generation Zee:en-US
• Generation Z:Generation Zed:en-GB

After activating the Cloud Console, the Welcome Message widget is created but disabled by default. To enable it:\ Go to WP-Admin → GSpeech → Cloud Console → Widgets → Welcome Message and set Status = Published. You can customize the message text, restrict it to specific pages using Allowed URLs, or configure it to play only once per session.

Yes. GSpeech works with most WordPress themes and builders including Divi. If you encounter compatibility issues, please contact us.

Yes. GSpeech includes Intelligent Content Isolation and granular content targeting features that let you control what should be included or excluded from audio playback. You can target the real article content and exclude menus, sidebars, ads, footers, shortcodes, URLs, and other unwanted elements using the nospeech class, CSS selectors, content rules, or the Exclude List in the Content tab.

GSpeech uses a flexible architecture where each account can manage up to 10 websites, each with its own settings and analytics. Website settings include language, default voice, speed, and pitch. Players are managed through the Smart Widgets Architecture in\ GSpeech → Cloud Console → Widgets.

No. All required TTS and translation API keys are included in GSpeech commercial plans, so you don’t need to manage external APIs.