EffectIO Speaker 4.0.8

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Create an audio version of your posts, with a selection of more than 340 voices across more than 52 languages and variants. Version: 4.0.2 Create an audio version of your posts, with a selection of more than 340 voices across more than 52 languages and variants.

Released on: 2023-10-25

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Speaker Page to Speech Plugin for WordPress: Convert Text to High-Quality Speech

Speaker is an innovative WordPress Plugin that utilizes the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform website page content into natural-sounding speech. With this plugin, you can enhance user experience by providing an audio player along with spoken content. Powered by Google Cloud Platform, Speaker ensures reliable performance and fast speeds globally.

One of the standout features of Speaker is its extensive language support, with over 340 voices available across 52 languages and variants. The plugin incorporates cutting-edge research in speech synthesis, including WaveNet and Neural2, along with Google’s advanced neural networks, resulting in lifelike audio playback.

What sets Speaker apart from other plugins is its compatibility with the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) standard. Through SSML, you can fine-tune the speech for each article on your website, adding pauses, intonation, and formatting numbers and telephones in a way that is natural to human speech. Additionally, Speaker allows the use of multiple voices and languages within a single article, making it ideal for activities like interviews or online language courses.

This plugin seamlessly integrates with popular WordPress editors and offers extensive customization options. You can enable or disable Speaker on specific pages, for different user groups, and across various devices (mobile, tablet, desktop). Furthermore, Speaker allows you to create custom Speech Templates for each page and post, ensuring a personalized audio experience.

With Speaker’s batch processing feature, you can effortlessly convert all existing pages on your site into speech. Whether you have just a handful or thousands of posts, the plugin synthesizes speech and generates corresponding audio files with just a few clicks.

Personalize the audio experience further by adding customizable intros and outros to each speech file. This feature enables consistent branding by including greetings or copyright information at the beginning and/or end of each audio file.

Speaker’s flexible design options empower you to customize the appearance of the audio player to match your preferences. You can also position multiple players on a single page, ensuring smooth transitions between articles, maintaining the flow of the story.

To prioritize user privacy, Speaker is GDPR-compliant and does not access or transmit private or non-public page content. Audio is generated solely based on the publicly available page markup. However, please note that the plugin does not work with password-protected post types designated for specific users or user groups.

With Speaker, you can benefit from convenient updates through the EffectIO Dashboard. The plugin comes pre-activated and is distributed under the GPL code, with premium support available from EffectIO. Take advantage of EffectIO’s super deals, offering substantial discounts ranging from 30% to 90%.

Experience the transformative power of Speaker, the ultimate WordPress Plugin for converting text to high-quality speech.

Create an audio version of your posts, with a selection of more than 340 voices across more than 52 languages and variants.

4.0.8 — 24 October 2023
  • Fixed fail of website if Google Cloud banned site DNS
  • Fixed warning in editor using GravityForm + Conversational Addon
  • Fixed looped audio for MediaElement player
4.0.7 — 12 October 2023
  • Added settings to add pauses for table markup
  • Fixed voice change selector for the Speech Template element
4.0.6 — 10 October 2023
  • Fixed missing Screen Options inside post editor for old WordPress editor
  • Fixed default RSS template values
  • Fixed problem with entering Google Drive key
4.0.5 — 7 October 2023
  • Fixed creating new Speech Templates error
  • Fixed managing plugin columns on the posts list page
4.0.4 — 5 October 2023
  • Added compatibility with WPGlobus
4.0.3 — 3 October 2023
  • Fixed wrong characters in French and Italian interface translation files
4.0.2 — 2 October 2023
  • Added automatic interface translation to: Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Hebrew, Georgian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Hindi, Serbian
  • Fixed Google Storage API key error for PHP 8+
  • Fixed empty language selects on Multilang Tab
4.0.1 — 28 September 2023
  • Default value for Compatibility option changed to 7.4
4.0.0 — 28 September 2023
  • Added multilingual functionality support
  • Squared, Rounded and Round player merged to MediaElement player
  • Speech Utilities sub-plugin merged with main plugin
  • Added automatic interface translation to: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
  • Added Wavesurfer player
  • Added setting to change border-radius, padding and margin for all player types
  • Added setting to add post thumbnail as audio cover
  • Added setting to manage colors of time trail for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players
  • Added setting to manage controls icons, sizes and color for player controls for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players
  • Added setting to hide/display any control for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players
  • Added download button to the player layout in Wavesurfer and MediaElement players
  • Added speed controls to the player layout for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players
  • Added share interface for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players and share bar for all player types
  • Added setting to manage gap between player and other elements: speed bar, download bar, share bar and text block
  • For Chrome Style Player added Playback speed controls
  • Chrome style player design improved to match the latest Chrome browser view
  • Download link setting spited to separate Front-end and Backend settings
  • Added settings to mute blockquotes tags content
  • Added settings to read the image alt attribute
  • Added setting to specify voice for each post
  • Added setting to specify voice for each author
  • Added setting to specify voice for each locale in multilingual websites
  • Added punctuation pause duration options for dot and comma
  • Improved compatibility with WPML and Polylang plugins
  • Added ability to change names for new generated files
  • Added [speaker-phoneme] shortcode
  • Added user role assignment for plugin management and audio generation
  • Added support of paginated posts content
  • Added settings to set custom audio file for Post
  • Added analytics for listening to audio files
  • Added option to stores Podcasts XML file in the root of the website
  • Fixed podcast feed for multi-paged posts
  • Added Duplicate Speech Template button
  • Added settings for managing Analytics Dashboard Widget
  • Added setting for setting the length of a text fragment in long reads
  • Added compatibility mode for PHP 8.1
  • Google Cloud-text-to-Speech libraries updated to 1.7
  • Search added for voice selection
  • Added 4 hour cache for voices list request to reduce network usage
  • Improved Google voices table looks and feels
  • Improved voice preview player UI
  • Added quick-start guide message in admin area for first plugin launch
  • Fixed a bug due to which temporary audio files could remain on the server
  • Fixed few common issues with generation large posts content
  • Fixed few issues with generation large posts content
  • Fixed error generating audio files Studio voices
  • Improved compatibility with Herald Theme
3.4.6 — 24 April 2023
  • Improved translations files
3.4.5 — 22 February 2023
  • Hebrew (עִברִית) language and 4 voice
  • Added settings group for fine tune player display on different themes
3.4.4 — 14 February 2023
  • Added Basque (Vasco) language and 1 voice
  • Added Galician (Galego) language and 1 voice
3.4.3 — 21 January 2023
  • Fixed duplicated voices for some languages
  • Fixed backend UI scripts initialization for some customer cases
  • Fixed escaping third-party plugins returns statements
  • Fixed styles for non Gutenberg page edit interface
  • Decrease minimum supported PHP version from 7.4 to 7.2.5
3.4.2 — 28 December 2022
  • Added 14 News voices for English languages
  • Improved accessibility of the default browser player
3.4.1 — 12 October 2022
  • Added Audio Encoding option, Sample rate option and Volume option
3.4.0 — 4 October 2022
  • Added Neural2 voices for English languages
  • Added text description before/after the audio player block
  • Added the Speakable Markup JSON+LD snippet
  • Added RSS feed for Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts
  • Added speaker-say-as, speaker-prosody, speaker-sub, speaker-emphasis and speaker-voice HTML attributes to extend SSML functionality
  • Added the ability to make substitutions in audio content using regular expressions
  • Added dashboard widget to show used free quota
  • Added Audio Content settings tab, Speakable Markup settings tab and Podcasts settings tab
  • Before Audio Text, After Audio Text, Read the Title and Read the Image Caption options moved to the Audio Content Tab
3.3.10 — 3 September 2022
  • Added Marathi (India) language and 6 voices
3.3.9 — 13 August 2022
  • Fixed special characters escape in the Download link
  • Added an audio preload attribute specifying how the audio file should be loaded
3.3.8 — 12 April 2022
  • Replaced cURL page request by wp_remote
3.3.7 — 19 February 2022
  • Fixed Speaker and Divi Builder compatibility issue
3.3.6 — 16 February 2022
  • Added the option to disable checking for plugin updates
  • Unused packages removed from the Google API dependencies
  • Fixed error after plugin uninstalling
3.3.5 — 21 January 2022
  • Added option for store and access audio files in the Media Library
3.3.4 — 13 January 2022
  • Added saving audio meta to the post meta
  • Fixed language choice for long posts in the Speech Template Editor
3.3.3 — 10 November 2021
  • Fixed player buttons align in Safari
  • Fixed translation issue for 'Playback speed:' string
3.3.2 — 4 October 2021
  • Fixed cURL error
3.3.1 — 7 September 2021
  • Added Chrome Style player skin for all browsers
3.3.0 — 29 August 2021
  • Added Playback Speed controls for front-end
  • Added saving audio files to Google Drive
  • Fixed few translations issues
3.2.7 — 26 July 2021
  • Fixed voice preview in the admin area
  • Fixed UI of the settings page for Apple mobile devices
3.2.6 — 14 July 2021
  • Added Punjabi (India) language and 8 voices
  • Added support for the Madara Theme (by wpstylish)
3.2.5 — 11 June 2021
  • Added developers option for voicing custom content
  • Enabled speaker shortcode with post ID if shortcodes is disabled in settings
3.2.4 — 29 May 2021
  • Added Dutch (Belgium) language and 4 voices
3.2.3 — 14 May 2021
  • Added Malay (Malaysia) language and 4 voices
3.2.2 — 9 April 2021
  • Added Unites States Spanish (Hispanoamericano) language and 6 voice
3.2.1 — 31 March 2021
  • Added option for read/mute image caption in the figcaption tag
  • Fixed white Activation tab
  • Fixed error in Now Used player on Safari
3.2.0 — 11 March 2021
  • Added audio output in WAV format
  • Added Catalan (Spain) language and 1 standard female voice
  • Added Afrikaans (South Africa) language and 1 standard female voice
  • Added Bulgarian (Български) language and 1 standard female voice
  • Added Latvian (Latvietis) language and 1 standard male voice
  • Added Serbian (Cрпски) language and 1 standard female voice
  • Added Icelandic (Íslensk) language and 1 standard female voice
  • Updated firebase/php-jwt (v5.2.0 => v5.2.1)
  • Updated firebase/php-jwt (v5.2.0 => v5.2.1)
  • Updated guzzlehttp/psr7 (1.6.1 => 1.7.0)
  • Updated guzzlehttp/promises (v1.3.1 => 1.4.0)
  • Updated grpc/grpc (1.30.0 => 1.35.0)
  • Updated guzzlehttp/guzzle (7.1.0 => 7.2.0)
  • The Speaker Utilities plugin is now activated with the main plugin
  • Changed the way of loading Guzzle if this library is already loaded by another plugin
  • Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.7
  • Improved compatibility with AMP
  • Minor CSS improvements
3.1.2 — 6 February 2021
  • Added audio metadata displaying
  • Added player autoplay setting
  • Added player loop setting
  • Hide web-kit audio player download button
  • Speaking Speed control step change to 0.1
3.1.1 — 6 January 2021
  • Added Romanian language (ro-RO) and 1 female voices for it
3.1.0 — 24 September 2020
  • Updated Google Cloud text-to-speech libraries up to 1.2
3.0.9 — 16 September 2020
  • Fixed Bulk audio generation
3.0.8 — 1 September 2020
  • Fixed issue with Custom Post types savings
3.0.7 — 26 August 2020
  • Fixed issue with "Synthesize audio on save" option
  • Fixed 'hover' pseudo-event is deprecated warning
  • Removed migration from physical API key file to encoded DB option
3.0.6 — 21 August 2020
  • Fixed issue with plugin update
3.0.5 — 14 August 2020
  • Added new language Yue Chinese (yue-HK) and 4 voices for it
  • Removed 'volume' parameter, as it caused errors
3.0.4 — 18 July 2020
  • Fixed plugin update and activation issues
3.0.3 — 04 July 2020
  • Added FOLLOW LOCATION for CURL when parsing.
  • Added tag to speaker-mute shortcode. Use [speaker-mute tag="span"] to mute a couple word in a paragraph.
3.0.2 — 02 July 2020
  • Fixed issue with script tags in content.
  • Improved error and exception processing.
  • Updated cloud-text-to-speech client libraries.
3.0.1 — 01 July 2020
  • Improved [speaker-mute] shortcode.
  • Improved element editor form.
  • Fixed bulk processing with default speech templates.
  • Code improvements
3.0.0 — 25 June 2020
  • Added Speech Template Editor(beta)
  • Added Elementor widget and WPBakery addon.
  • Added shortcode [speaker-prosody] to customize the pitch, speaking rate, and volume.
  • Added shortcode [speaker-say] to say but not show content.
  • Added Read the Title option
  • Added Volume Gain control in settings
  • Added a mirror for customers from Iran and other countries without access to Google Cloud
  • Added new rules to Assignments: WordPress Content, Home Page, Menu Items, URL
  • Added filter speaker_before_synthesis
  • Added filter speaker_before_part_speak
  • Added filter speaker_before_adding_watermarks
  • Added filter speaker_before_voice_divider
  • Added filter speaker_before_content_dividing
  • Added filter speaker_before_content_manipulations
  • Added Drag & Drop API Key uploading
  • Increased plugin speed
  • Added new voices (Standard and WaveNet)
  • Added Custom Post Types Support
  • Added Custom CSS tab in settings
  • Updated cloud-text-to-speech client library up to 1.0.1
  • Fixed multiple voices issue with different sample rates
  • Improved handling of special characters
  • Improved parsing mechanism
  • Improved Multi-sites Support
  • Improved plugin stability
  • Improved Security
  • Code refactoring
2.1.2 — 1 May 2020
  • Added new language bn-IN, Bengali (বাংলা), with two voices: male and female.
  • Added new language gu-IN, Gujarati (ગુજરાતી), with two voices: male and female.
  • Added new language kn-IN, Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), with two voices: male and female.
  • Added new language ml-IN, Malayalam (മലയാളം), with two voices: male and female.
  • Added new language ta-IN, Tamil (தமிழ்), with two voices: male and female.
  • Added new language te-IN, Telugu (తెలుగు), with two voices: male and female.
  • Added new language th-TH, Thai (ภาษาไทย), with one male voice.
2.1.1 — 28 February 2020
  • Improved compatibility with automated content creation systems
  • Fixed bug with synthesizing audio after

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