Description
This is a block that allows you to add a text-to-speech feature to your website.
Using the Web Speech API, the plugin will read the content of the page according to the document language and user’s preferences.
No third-party services are used, so no cookies are required. GDPR-friendly. Accessibility-ready.
Key Features
- Listen to the content of a page according to the document language and user’s preferences.
- (New) Highlight the current sentence being spoken with custom colors.
- Skip undesired content by adding the class .skip-speech to the element.
- Accessibility-ready
- No cookies used (GDPR-friendly)
- Performance-optimized and lightweight
- No block library required
- Primarily built with native WordPress components
- Developer-friendly and easy to customize
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Credits
The icons of this block come from Heroicons with MIT license
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Screenshots
Example of the plugin in action
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Text to Speech Read the content of of a page using native Speech Synthesis and Interactivity API.
Installation
- You have a couple of options:
- Go to Plugins → Add New and search for “Mosne text to speech”. Once found, click “Install”.
- Download the Mosne text to speech from wordpress.org and make sure the folder is zipped. Then upload via Plugins → Add New → Upload.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen on WordPress.
- Search for the “Mosne text to speech” block within the Block Editor (Gutenberg) and add it to a block navigation.
FAQ
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Can I skip some content?
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You can skip some content by adding the class
.skip-speechto the element.
Contributors & Developers
“Mosne Text to Speech Block” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Mosne Text to Speech Block” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Mosne Text to Speech Block” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
0.3.1 – 2025-03-28
- Complete refactor and bug fix
0.3.1 – 2025-03-26
- Minor bug fix
0.3.0 – 2025-03-25
- Added a new custom skip classes field
- Fix compatibility issues with Firefox and Android.
- Improved performance
0.1.1 – 2025-02-05
- Fix security issue
0.1.0 – 2025-02-01
- Initial release