GSpeech TTS – WordPress Text To Speech Plugin

GSpeech is 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, analytics, and playback delivery outside your WordPress hosting environment. 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 Dashboard, featuring premium AI voices (commercial plans), multiple player types, real-time audio translation, downloadable audio files, detailed analytics, and full integration with the WordPress Admin Panel.

GSpeech supports a wide range of languages including Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (commercial), Belarusian (commercial), Basque (commercial), 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 (commercial), German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh (commercial), Khmer, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian (commercial), Macedonian (commercial), Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Maori (commercial), Myanmar, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian (commercial), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi – commercial), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian (commercial), Spanish (Spain, US), Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yue Chinese (commercial), 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. 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.

Your generated audio stays available. GSpeech does not delete previously generated audio files when your plan changes, including a change to the Free plan. Your audio remains securely stored in the GSpeech Cloud and available in your dashboard for playback and download. You can download your generated .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.

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) 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. Configuration:\ Go to WP-Admin → GSpeech → Cloud Console → Widgets → RHT Player. Available views: • View 1 – Circle player with timeline, volume, and speed controls\ • View 2 & 3 (commercial plans) – include translation and text panels See the Screenshots Section for examples.

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.