Description
This lightweight and easy-to-use WordPress plugin converts your post or page content into natural-sounding audio with sentence and word highlighting.
Read aloud your content using realistic voices—perfect for accessibility and engagement.
✅ Free version: Uses browser-based speech synthesis
🚀 PRO version: Connects to high-quality Text to Speech APIs like OpenAI TTS, ElevenLabs, and Google Cloud TTS
Upgrade to PRO here for lifelike voices powered by audio file generation.
Natural Text to Speech – Why Choose It?
Natural Text to Speech is the only WordPress plugin that highlights both sentences and individual words as they’re spoken.
Use-cases for Text to Speech
- News & blogs – let readers listen on the move
- e-Learning – narration for tutorials and courses
- Accessibility – WCAG-compliant alternative to on-screen text
Browser vs Cloud Text to Speech
FREE Plan
– Mode: Browser (built-in Web Speech API)
– Voices: Varies by visitor’s OS (e.g., Chrome/Windows/Safari/macOS)
– Quality: Fair, robotic
– Cost: Free
PRO Plan
– Mode: Cloud-based (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud TTS)
– Voices: Studio-quality, highly realistic
– Quality: ★★★★★
– Cost: Pay-as-you-go (depends on TTS provider), and we implement caching strategy so your API call is efficient.
Supported Languages
All languages are supported, except Kannada and Thai.
The following languages have been tested and confirmed working:
Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
Natural Text to Speech Features
- Text to Speech with live sentence & word highlighting
- PRO version can integrates with top TTS APIs: OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud
- Easy shortcode integration: [natural_tts]
- Easy Install
- Light and solid Plugin
You Can Request any Features Related to Text to Speech
Our plugin design to be flexible and adapt to your ideas, Just fill this feedback form and the features will be ready for next update (estimate about couple of week).
PRO Version
Unlock higher-quality TTS voices with the PRO plan.
- Can be integrate with best TTS API as audio source like OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Google Cloud, and more …
- Caching API call (saving your TTS API cost)
- Priority support
- More customization
Shortcodes
[natural_tts]
Inserts the Listen button and audio playback functionality.
More shortcode attributes coming soon in future updates!
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Roadmap
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1.1.x – May 2025
- Enhanced testing
- User can select voice they want
- More embeding setting
- Increase UI UX of the plugin setting page in wp admin
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1.2.x – June 2025
- Download one mp3 file for the full article
- Downloadable VTT/SRT captions from Text to Speech
- Enhanced testing
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1.3.x – July 2025
- Any suggestion? fill this form
Support
Need help?
Visit: https://reinventwp.vercel.app
Or email: reinventwp@gmail.com
Tested on Template
Template from fresh install WP, Twenty Twenty-Two,Twenty Twenty-Three, Twenty Twenty-One, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Five, Twenty Seventeen, Blocksy, YITH Wonder, PopularFX, Futurio Storefront, Popularis eCommerce, Go, Twenty Sixteen, News Magazine X, Storefront, Lightning, Colibri WP, Sydney, Astra, Kadence, GeneratePress, Hello Biz, Hello Elementor, Royal Elementor Kit
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External Services
This plugin connects to our API at https://reinventwp-services.vercel.app for:
- Subscription authentication (via Freemius)
- Secure proxying of your TTS API keys
- Audio file generation and caching
Data sent to our API:
– Freemius user info (email, website URL)
– Your TTS API key
Data returned:
– JWT token (auth)
– Generated audio files
Screenshots
The “Listen” button above your post. 
TTS with highlight sentence and word 
How it work 
Setting Page: Embed the player 
Setting Page: Audio & Integration PRO Version – Integrate with TTS API like OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Google Cloud Text To Speech 
Setting Page: Runtime config – Automatically follow the text being spoken, Pronounciation correction 
Setting Page: Customization button player
Installation
- Install via the WordPress Plugin Directory, or upload the .zip manually.
- Activate through the ‘Plugins’ menu.
- Insert the
[natural_tts]shortcode into any post or page. - A “Listen” button will appear above your content.
FAQ
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Is it FREE?
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Yes! The free version uses browser-based speech synthesis (Web Speech API). It works, but the voices may sound robotic.
For natural-sounding audio, upgrade to PRO to use ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS, or Google Cloud TTS.
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How do I upgrade to PRO?
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- Go to our website, choose a plan, and complete payment.
- You’ll get an email from Freemius with your license key
- Search and Install this plugin from WordPress Plugins menu from your WordPress admin
- Activate and enter your license key.
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How many languages and voices are available?
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This plugin it self is support many languages goto Supported Languages
But, When you want to integrate with TTS API as audio source like OpenAI TTS, ElevenLabs TTS and Google Cloud TTS.
So you will need to check their languages support also:
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Does Natural Text to Speech work on every WordPress theme?
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Yes. The plugin inserts its player with a shortcode, so it will show on top of your posts. No template editing is required.
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Can I customise the player’s colors, size, or position?
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Yes! We’re committed to giving users flexibility and a high-quality TTS experience.
You can go to plugin setting on your wp admin
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How is my API key kept secure in PRO mode?
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Your API key is stored on our server, encrypted at rest, and never exposed in the page source.
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Does Text to Speech improve SEO?
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Yes. Audio keeps users on the page longer and adds Text to Speech transcripts that Google can index, often boosting dwell-time and rankings.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Natural Text to Speech” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Translate “Natural Text to Speech” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.2.9
- Add look customization: highlight style
- Add runtime config: Double click gesture, disable sentence / word highlight
1.2.8
- Auto Scroll
- Pronounciation correction
1.2.7
- add links on wp plugin list
1.2.6
- 15 June 2025
- fix bug: Intelligence Setting Search
1.2.5
- 15 June 2025
- Intelligence Setting Search
1.2.4
- Fix bug
- Improve UX
1.2.1
- Fix bug
- Improve UX
- Support many page type, like post, page, attachment, etc…
1.1.2
- Quality is number one
1.1.1
- fix bug demo live WordPress
1.1.0
- Stable version
1.0.9
- Update readme
- Fix bug
1.0.8
- Update readme
1.0.7
- Initial release