Text to Speech – Reinvent WP

Reinvent WP Text to Speech (formerly Natural Text To Speech) adds a “Listen” button that reads your posts aloud in a natural AI voice. As the audio plays, the current sentence and word are highlighted on the page, so readers can listen and follow along at the same time. It turns any post into text to audio in seconds, with no setup.

Works right after activation. No API key, no credit card, no configuration. Activate the plugin and the player appears on your posts, powered by 20,000 free characters a month from Reinvent WP Cloud Free.

Use the voice provider you prefer. Start with free voices, connect your own ElevenLabs account (10,000 free characters a month), or upgrade to PRO to use OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud, Amazon Polly or Azure AI Speech with your own API key. Don’t want to manage API keys? PRO also includes Reinvent WP Cloud PRO: premium voices with no API key and 40,000 characters a month. You can switch providers at any time without changing plugins.

Word highlighting with real AI voices. Every word lights up in sync with the voice, whichever provider you use. Not just robotic browser voices.

Built for news sites, blogs, online courses, accessibility-focused websites, WooCommerce stores and agencies managing many client sites.

Why site owners choose it

• Word highlighting on real AI audio – Every word lights up in sync with natural AI voices from OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud, Amazon Polly, Azure or Reinvent WP Cloud, not just robotic browser voices. Visitors can follow the text while they listen, which helps with focus, reading difficulties and long articles.
• Natural AI voices – ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google Cloud, Amazon Polly and Azure, plus free voices from Reinvent WP Cloud Free.
• Pay your provider directly – With your own API key, you pay the voice provider for what you use, with no markup from us.
• 11 player styles – Modern, Classic Controls, Floating Pill, Waveform Card, Glassmorphism, Chapter Timeline, Accessible Controls, Article Contents and more. Colors adapt to your theme.
• Accessible player – Keyboard controls, ARIA labels, visible focus states and screen-reader-friendly status updates.
• Lightweight – About 300KB, deferred, and loaded only on pages that use the player.
• Instant Play – Long posts start playing right away, with no wait for the whole article to be generated.

Free text to speech features

• Text to speech player with sentence and word highlighting
• 20,000 free characters a month from Reinvent WP Cloud Free, or your own ElevenLabs free tier
• Automatic “Listen” button on posts, a Gutenberg block (search for “Reinvent WP TTS”) and the [natural_tts] shortcode
• Customizable player: styles, colors, button labels and position
• Accessible player controls
• Listening analytics: plays, listening time and completion rate

PRO text to speech features

• Bring your own key for OpenAI TTS, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud TTS, Amazon Polly and Azure AI Speech
• Reinvent WP Cloud PRO – premium voices with no API key, 40,000 characters a month for monthly and annual subscribers
• Smart audio caching – generate audio once and reuse it to keep API costs down
• MP3 export and bulk MP3 generation
• Post to Podcast – turn posts into podcast episodes with an RSS feed for Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other platforms
• Pronunciation rules for technical terms, abbreviations and names
• ElevenLabs audio tags with Eleven v3 and v4 (for example [whispers] or [laughs])
• Usage limits – 5-hour, daily and monthly character quotas and rate limiting
• Advanced shortcode options

See PRO plans

Supported text to speech languages

The plugin works with 140+ languages and variants and 1,000+ voices across providers. The available languages and voices depend on the text to speech provider you choose:

• OpenAI TTS: 57 languages, 11 voices
• ElevenLabs: 29+ languages, 1,000+ voices
• Google Cloud TTS: 40+ languages and variants, 200+ voices
• Amazon Polly: 41 languages and variants, 100+ voices
• Azure AI Speech: 140+ languages and variants, 400+ voices

Tested and confirmed working in Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, 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, Maori, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh. Kannada and Thai are not supported yet.

Hear live demos in every language →

Compatibility

Works with most themes, page builders and plugins, including:

• Builders and themes: Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, Avada, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, Brizy, SiteOrigin
• Multilingual: WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, GTranslate
• Caching: LiteSpeed Cache, WP-Optimize, W3 Total Cache, Autoptimize, Speed Optimizer
• Custom post types: WooCommerce products, ACF, Custom Post Type UI, Toolset Types

Use it outside WordPress

Need the same player on a custom site or a React / Next.js app? Use the JavaScript embed or the NPM package.

Support

Ask questions in the support forum. We aim to reply within 24 hours. You can also use the live chat on reinventwp.com, email reinventwp@gmail.com, or join us on Telegram or Discord.

Found a bug or have an idea? Report a bug or request a feature.

Pricing

The free version is free forever. PRO plans:

• Monthly: 1 site $6 · 5 sites $20 · 20 sites $120
• Annual: 1 site $69 · 5 sites $79 · 20 sites $249
• Lifetime: 1 site $200 · 5 sites $700 · 20 sites $1,000

Reinvent WP Cloud PRO characters (40,000 a month) are included with monthly and annual plans. Lifetime plans don’t include Cloud PRO characters; use your own API key instead. Compare plans

Shortcodes

The player is added to your posts automatically. Use the Gutenberg block (search for “Reinvent WP TTS”) or the shortcode to place and configure it yourself:

[natural_tts target-tts-direction="below"]
[natural_tts target-tts-selector="body"]
[natural_tts lang="ru-RU"]
[natural_tts src="https://example.com/audio.mp3"]
[natural_tts trigger-play="all"]

[natural_tts]
  {
    "read_title": true
  }
[/natural_tts]

External Services

This plugin connects to the services below. Nothing is sent until the related feature is used.

Reinvent WP Cloud (https://services.reinventwp.com)

• Used when Reinvent WP Cloud Free or Reinvent WP Cloud PRO is your voice provider (the default after activation). When a visitor presses play, their browser sends the text being read to this service to generate the audio, so the visitor’s IP address is also visible to it. Your site URL and plan are sent to check your monthly quota.
• Used for license checks through Freemius when you open the plugin settings page. Your Freemius account details (email, site URL, license and plan) are sent.
• Used for error logging. Error messages, plugin version and site URL are sent so we can fix problems.
• Used for the list of Reinvent WP apps on the Reinvent WP → Dashboard page. When an administrator opens that page, your site downloads the current list at most once a day and keeps a copy. Nothing about your site or you is sent.
• Used for the assistant (the Describe a problem with your site field) on the Reinvent WP → Dashboard page and on this plugin’s settings page. When you send a question, it is sent with any screenshots or text files you attach to it (of a file, only its newest part, with emails, IP addresses, passwords and keys hidden by your browser first), the last few messages of the conversation and the list of Reinvent WP plugins on your site (whether each is active, inactive or not installed, and its version), so the answer can point to the right plugin and setting. Nothing is stored; the conversation stays in your browser tab. If you send feedback from the assistant’s form, your email, site address and message go to the Reinvent WP team, like the feedback form.

Voice providers you connect (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud, Amazon Polly, Azure AI Speech)

• When you choose one of these providers, the text to be spoken is sent from your site directly to that provider, using your own API key. Your API keys are stored in your WordPress database and are not sent to us.
• Please review the provider’s terms and privacy policy: OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure.

Custom API (a text to speech API whose address you enter yourself)

• When you choose Custom API, the text to be spoken is sent from your site to the address you entered, with the headers and body you set. Nothing is sent until you choose it and save, or play a preview. The audio it returns is saved on your site.
• The address, headers and body you enter (which may include your API key) are saved encrypted in your WordPress database and are not sent to us or to your visitors.
• Please review that service’s terms and privacy policy before connecting it.

Reinvent WP website (https://reinventwp.com)

• Used to show current offers on the plugin settings page and to record basic interactions with them (shown, dismissed, coupon copied, button clicked).

Generated audio files and plugin settings are stored on your own WordPress site.

Affiliate disclosure: links to ElevenLabs (try.elevenlabs.io/reinventwp) are affiliate links. If you sign up for a paid ElevenLabs plan through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

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1. Install the plugin from Plugins → Add New (search for “Reinvent WP Text to Speech” or “text to speech”), or upload the .zip file.
2. Activate it.
3. A “Listen” button appears on your posts. Open any post and press play.
4. You get 20,000 free characters a month from Reinvent WP Cloud Free right away. No API key or credit card needed.

To change the voice, player style or where the player appears, open Reinvent WP Text to Speech in your WordPress admin menu.

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   Integrate with ElevenLabs in the free version with 10,000 characters per month

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   The "Listen" button above your post

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   Text to speech with the sentence and word highlighted as they are spoken, synced to real AI audio

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   How it works

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   Gutenberg block editor support

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   11+ player styles

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   Simple mode for non-technical users

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   Advanced mode for complete customization

3.3.9

• Fixed pronunciation and language detection with OpenAI: OpenAI shut down gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4 and gpt-4-turbo on October 23, 2026. The plugin now uses GPT-6 Luna, and GPT-6.1 Sol with medium reasoning for harder cases.
• The site check only tests the OpenAI connection when pronunciation is turned on.

3.3.8

• New Custom API audio source: connect any text to speech API like a Postman request (method, endpoint URL, headers and body, with {{text}} where the text goes), then choose where the audio is in the response. It starts as an OpenAI request, so you only paste your key. The URL, headers and body are saved encrypted.
• New optional note next to each provider’s API key, so you remember which account the key belongs to.
• Links from Reinvent WP Cloud Free and PRO to their details on reinventwp.com.
• The Reinvent WP Apps page shows upcoming Reinvent WP apps as “Coming soon”.

3.3.7

• New Reinvent WP Apps page: see your Reinvent WP apps, activate or install them, and open the full catalog on reinventwp.com.
• New assistant: describe a problem with your site on the Apps page or the plugin page, attach a screenshot or log file, and get a link to the right setting.
• Links to a setting now open Advanced mode and highlight that setting.

3.3.6

• Update WP Live Preview

3.3.5

• Update WP Live Preview

3.3.4

• Added ElevenLabs Eleven v4 support, including v4 Turbo. Choose a model from the live ElevenLabs list or enter its model ID manually.
• Audio previews in Simple and Advanced mode now show how Eleven v3 and v4 use audio tags such as [whispers] and [laughs] to guide delivery.

3.3.3

• Fixed a highlighting bug with the Avada theme.

3.3.2

• Improved the settings page design.

3.3.1

• Improved the player design.

3.3.0

• Added a feedback form.