Play.ht – Make Your Blog Posts Accessible With Text to Speech Audio

Play.ht helps you convert your articles, blog posts, courses and almost all written content into spoken word audio so users can listen to your content. Play.ht uses state of the art Text to Speech technology and SEO friendly embedded audio players along with RSS podcast feeds to help you create, embed and distribute your articles in audio format.

Giving users an option to listen to your content offers several benefits such as it makes your content more accessible to busy on-the-go users, it helps people with visual disabilities to consume your content and when people listen on your website they spend more time thereby increase user engagement and page on time metrics of your website which improves your SEO.

Play.ht also enables you to create RSS feeds of your audio articles that you can submit to iTunes, Spotify and Google Podcasts to publish your articles as podcasts on these platforms thereby increasing the reach of your content.

With more than 260+ high-quality realistic AI Text to Speech voices in 55+ different languages powered by Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure and IBM Watson, you get the largest collection of best and natural sounding AI Voices to choose from to narrate your content.

Use from 3 different types of fully customizable and white-labeled embedded audio players to offer the best listening experience for your audience.

You also get access to detailed audio analytics which shows listening behavior of your users.

When users listen to your articles, they have the ability to increase or reduce the listening speed, share the audio on social media, download or even subscribe with their emails.

Features

These are some of the features this plugin provides:

1. Increases accessibility and user engagement of your content using 260+ high-quality Text to Speech AI voices.
2. Converts articles, blog posts, lessons, courses, etc. into spoken word audio narrations so users have the option of listening.
3. Increases the time users spend on your website thereby increasing Time on Page metrics and reduces Bounce rates.
4. Provides easy shareability of your articles as audio on Twitter & Facebook.
5. Enables you to publish your articles and blog posts as Podcasts on iTunes, Spotify and Google Podcasts.
6. Get detailed audio analytics of your audio.
7. A state of the art Text to Voice editor to help with editing audio of your articles.