Standard Installation:
- In WordPress admin go to Plugins → Add New, search "Text to Speech (TTS) by Mementor."
- Click Install Now → Activate.
- Enjoy 10 000 one-off audio credits straight away.
- (Optional) Connect an ElevenLabs API key for 10 000 free characters every month, or upgrade to PRO for 75 000.
- Adjust player style under Settings → Text to Speech if desired.
Quick Start Guide:
After activation, your plugin is ready to use! Here's how to get the most from it:
- Automatic Mode: Audio players automatically appear on all new posts/pages
- Test Voices: Visit Text to Speech → Generator to test different voices before publishing
- Monitor Usage: Check Text to Speech → My Stats to track your credit usage
- Customize Player: Go to Text to Speech → Player to adjust appearance, position, and behavior
- Exclude Content: Use Text to Speech → Content to set rules for what gets converted
- Track Engagement: Enable statistics in Text to Speech → Settings to see listener analytics
- Generate in Bulk (PRO): Select multiple posts in Text to Speech → Content and click "Generate Audio"
First Steps:
- Create or edit a post/page
- The audio player will appear automatically after publishing
- Click play to test your AI-powered audio!
1.8.8 – 2025-10-24
- Fixed: Posts and pages list now correctly detects audio files when Media Offload (S3) is enabled
1.8.7 – 2025-10-24
- Security: Amazon S3 Secret Access Key is now encrypted in database
- Fixed: Resolved rate limiting issues caused by excessive API calls
- Improved: S3 configuration section now collapsible (collapsed by default)
1.8.6 – 2025-10-23
- Fixed: Multiple administrators can now generate audio simultaneously without interference
- New: Media Offload - Amazon S3 integration for storing audio files on external cloud storage
- New: Generator page controls to optionally include/exclude Custom Introduction and Custom Outro
- New: Download button added to Recent Generations in Generator page
- Improved: Audio detection system supports S3 URLs and external storage
- Improved: Code cleanup and optimization
1.8.5 – 2025-10-10
- Fixed: Custom introduction and outro text no longer duplicates in generated audio
- Fixed: Audio player now correctly appears after the first paragraph on Elementor pages
- Improved: Author name now uses custom 'author' field when available instead of WordPress username
1.8.4 – 2025-10-09
- Fixed: CSS conflicts with Elementor accordion components and other page builder content
- Fixed: Overly broad CSS selectors affecting page content outside the player
- Improved: Changed descendant selectors to child selectors for better CSS specificity
- Improved: Added explicit CSS protection for Elementor widgets and page builder content
1.8.3 – 2025-10-09
- Fixed: PRO users without ElevenLabs API key seeing "Free Credits Exhausted" during audio generation
- Improved: Enhanced credit verification to properly bypass free credit checks for active PRO users
- Improved: PRO users with 75,000 monthly credits can now generate audio without connecting API key
1.8.2 – 2025-10-09
- New: PRO version badge in settings header showing current version and update status
- New: Visual update notification when PRO plugin update is available
- Fixed: PRO users with remaining credits incorrectly seeing "Free Credits Exhausted" message
- Fixed: "Refresh Stats" button permission error in PRO Usage Stats section
- Fixed: Non-functional "Refresh Stats" button in ElevenLabs API Usage section
- Improved: Added AJAX handler for refreshing ElevenLabs statistics cache
- Improved: Enhanced PRO credit system to properly distinguish PRO credits from free credits
1.8.1 – 2025-01-09
- New: PRO plugin update system using free plugin constants for reliable updates
- Performance: Instant update checks with no network latency
1.8.0 – 2025-10-08
- New: Speech to Text (PRO) - Complete transcription feature for converting audio and video files to text
- New: Speech to Text admin page with drag-and-drop file upload interface
- New: Support for multiple audio and video formats in Speech to Text transcription
- New: Automatic language detection for transcriptions with support for 99 languages and multiple voice styles
- New: Audio event tagging to identify laughter, applause, music and other events in transcriptions
- New: Optional subtitle timestamps for precise timing information in transcriptions
- New: Transcription export in multiple formats - TXT, DOCX (RTF), and JSON
- New: Transcription history to view and manage all previous transcriptions
- Improved: Modern 3-column grid layout for transcription options with responsive design
- Improved: Better API key handling and permission error messages for Speech to Text
- Fixed: Database table auto-creation for transcriptions when plugin is already activated
- Fixed: PRO feature detection for Speech to Text page access control
Earlier versions
Earlier versions of Text to Speech for WordPress introduced major upgrades to design, performance, and usability — including a full admin UI overhaul, bulk audio generation, white-labeling for PRO users, improved credit tracking, and expanded multilingual voice access.
Updates also enhanced SEO with AudioObject schema, optimized content handling for Elementor and other page builders, and resolved multiple API and encryption issues to ensure smoother ElevenLabs integration and cleaner audio output.