Natural Text To Speech is the best Text to Speech WordPress Plugin. Its using cutting edge technology that it enables you integrate to many popular TTS Cloud API like Open AI TTS, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud TTS, Amazon Polly, and Azure TTS.
Here is why:
Integrate with 5 TTS API Cloud Provider
Plugin is the enabler your site to connect to many popular TTS Cloud API like Open AI TTS, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud TTS, Amazon Polly, and Azure TTS.
You can just put your secret key or credential into the wp plugin setting page, and thats it! it work.
With this method the plugin is just a bridge that help your site connect to their services easily.
Not just connect! it even add highlight sentence and word that are being spoken.
That highlighting feature is so rare even the TTS Cloud API is doesn’t have that feature.
Highlighting Sentence and Word
Theres no other wordpress text to speech plugin that can do highlight sentence and the word as they are spoken.
Its really good.
Multi Language Support
From the technical perspective the language support we can divide into two part:
Displaying Text and Audio Generation part.
Displaying Text
The job of the plugin is displaying the text from some language. Languages around the world has different way for writing and reading.
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.
Other:
Telugu, Bengali, Farsi.
Other language that not listed here doesn’t mean it is not working, it mean not tested yet.
Audio Generation
When using this plugin the audio generation is depend on TTS Cloud API like Open AI TTS, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud TTS, Amazon polly, and Azure.
The plugin job is to prepare the text that will be converted into audio by TTS Cloud API.
So the audio you can refer to their docs:
Supported text to speech
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, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
v2 models support 29 languages:
English (USA, UK, Australia, Canada), Japanese, Chinese, German, Hindi, French (France, Canada), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Italian, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Indonesian, Dutch, Turkish, Filipino, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Arabic (Saudi Arabia, UAE), Czech, Greek, Finnish, Croatian, Malay, Slovak, Danish, Tamil, Ukrainian & Russian.
Flash v2.5 supports 32 languages – all languages from v2 models plus:
Hungarian, Norwegian & Vietnamese
- Google Cloud Text to Speech Supported Language
- Amazon Polly Text to Speech Supported Language
- Azure Text to Speech Supported Language
Rich Features
This plugin is have many many flexible features, and still grow along side your websites use cases and the users crazy ideas.
The Natural Text-to-Speech (TTS) plugin offers a powerful and flexible solution for converting written content into lifelike spoken audio across multiple languages and platforms. It’s designed with user accessibility, performance, and developer integration in mind. Here’s a breakdown of the core features:
AI-Driven Audio Source
- Integrates with OpenAI TTS, Google Cloud, Amazon Polly, Azure TTS, ElevenLabs, and other top-tier providers.
- Offers human-like voice output (available in PRO plan).
- Uses the browser Web Speech Synthesis API for free plans.
Security, Privacy & Independence
All audio files and sensitive credentials (API keys, tokens) are stored locally on your server. This ensures data privacy, security, and full compliance with self-hosted environments.
TTS Control & Playback
Users can control:
- Volume, rate, pitch, and voice selection
- Playback controls: Play, Pause, Resume, Stop
- Playback navigation by sentence or paragraph
- Double-click gesture to trigger playback
Embedding & Customization
- Easily embed TTS with shortcode
- Limit functionality to specific post types
- Exclude unwanted content using HTML selectors or text strings
- Supports scientific notation, math symbols, and proper pronunciation control
Runtime Features
- Playback progress indicator (upcoming feature)
- Auto-scroll with spoken text for improved reading experience
Compatibility & Integration
- Fully works in all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox)
- Designed to run smoothly with WordPress’ shortcode and post systems
Support & Accessibility
- Offers 24/7 customer service via AI support agent and human fallback