Speaker

Fixed a security vulnerability in the post metabox AJAX endpoint: added nonce verification, capability checks, and a post meta whitelist (CVE-2026-57783)

Fixed an issue where the API key could be reset by transient network or server errors instead of only definitive authentication failures

Improved displaying of the player and playback controls on the mobile lock screen

Fixed an issue where certain shortcode inputs were not properly sanitized

Fixed display of saved multilingual settings in the Multilingual tab

Fixed issue where long audio durations were incorrectly displayed in the Wavesurfer player.

Fixed error where icons were not properly loaded in certain server environments.

PHP7 compatibility moved to sub-plugin Speaker PHP7

Updated Google packages to version 1.8.3

Fixed default speech template for post formats

Fixed date format and special characters in RSS feed

Changed the default RSS Header Template to meets the new PSP-1 standard by the Podcast Standards Project

Added iOS unmute setting to workaround iPhone mute button

Implement filter for multilang locale

Fixed HTML content split issue

Fixed issue during a plugin installation process

Fixed Wavesurfer player layout for long page titles

Fixed fail of website if Google Cloud banned site DNS

Fixed warning in editor using GravityForm + Conversational Addon

Fixed looped audio for MediaElement player

Added settings to add pauses for table markup

Fixed voice change selector for the Speech Template element

Fixed missing Screen Options inside post editor for old WordPress editor

Fixed default RSS template values

Fixed problem with entering Google Drive key

Fixed creating new Speech Templates error

Fixed managing plugin columns on the posts list page

Added automatic interface translation to: Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Hebrew, Georgian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Hindi, Serbian

Fixed Google Storage API key error for PHP 8+

Fixed empty language selects on Multilang Tab

Added multilingual functionality support

Squared, Rounded and Round player merged to MediaElement player

Speech Utilities sub-plugin merged with main plugin

Added automatic interface translation to: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Added Wavesurfer player

Added setting to change border-radius, padding and margin for all player types

Added setting to add post thumbnail as audio cover

Added setting to manage colors of time trail for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players

Added setting to manage controls icons, sizes and color for player controls for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players

Added setting to hide/display any control for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players

Added download button to the player layout in Wavesurfer and MediaElement players

Added speed controls to the player layout for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players

Added share interface for Wavesurfer and MediaElement players and share bar for all player types

Added setting to manage gap between player and other elements: speed bar, download bar, share bar and text block

For Chrome Style Player added Playback speed controls

Chrome style player design improved to match the latest Chrome browser view

Download link setting spited to separate Front-end and Backend settings

Added settings to mute blockquotes tags content

Added settings to read the image alt attribute

Added setting to specify voice for each post

Added setting to specify voice for each author

Added setting to specify voice for each locale in multilingual websites

Added punctuation pause duration options for dot and comma

Improved compatibility with WPML and Polylang plugins

Added ability to change names for new generated files

Added [speaker-phoneme] shortcode

Added user role assignment for plugin management and audio generation

Added support of paginated posts content

Added settings to set custom audio file for Post

Added analytics for listening to audio files

Added option to stores Podcasts XML file in the root of the website

Fixed podcast feed for multi-paged posts

Added Duplicate Speech Template button

Added settings for managing Analytics Dashboard Widget

Added setting for setting the length of a text fragment in long reads

Added compatibility mode for PHP 8.1

Google Cloud-text-to-Speech libraries updated to 1.7

Search added for voice selection

Added 4 hour cache for voices list request to reduce network usage

Improved Google voices table looks and feels

Improved voice preview player UI

Added quick-start guide message in admin area for first plugin launch

Fixed a bug due to which temporary audio files could remain on the server

Fixed few common issues with generation large posts content

Fixed few issues with generation large posts content

Fixed error generating audio files Studio voices

Improved compatibility with Herald Theme

Hebrew (עִברִית) language and 4 voice

Added settings group for fine tune player display on different themes

Added Basque (Vasco) language and 1 voice

Added Galician (Galego) language and 1 voice

Fixed duplicated voices for some languages

Fixed backend UI scripts initialization for some customer cases

Fixed escaping third-party plugins returns statements

Fixed styles for non Gutenberg page edit interface

Decrease minimum supported PHP version from 7.4 to 7.2.5

Added 14 News voices for English languages

Improved accessibility of the default browser player

Added Neural2 voices for English languages

Added text description before/after the audio player block

Added the Speakable Markup JSON+LD snippet

Added RSS feed for Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts

Added speaker-say-as, speaker-prosody, speaker-sub, speaker-emphasis and speaker-voice HTML attributes to extend SSML functionality

Added the ability to make substitutions in audio content using regular expressions

Added dashboard widget to show used free quota

Added Audio Content settings tab, Speakable Markup settings tab and Podcasts settings tab

Before Audio Text, After Audio Text, Read the Title and Read the Image Caption options moved to the Audio Content Tab

Fixed special characters escape in the Download link

Added an audio preload attribute specifying how the audio file should be loaded

Added the option to disable checking for plugin updates

Unused packages removed from the Google API dependencies

Fixed error after plugin uninstalling

Added saving audio meta to the post meta

Fixed language choice for long posts in the Speech Template Editor

Fixed player buttons align in Safari

Fixed translation issue for 'Playback speed:' string

Added Playback Speed controls for front-end

Added saving audio files to Google Drive

Fixed few translations issues

Fixed voice preview in the admin area

Fixed UI of the settings page for Apple mobile devices

Added Punjabi (India) language and 8 voices

Added support for the Madara Theme (by wpstylish)

Added developers option for voicing custom content

Enabled speaker shortcode with post ID if shortcodes is disabled in settings

Added option for read/mute image caption in the figcaption tag

Fixed white Activation tab

Fixed error in Now Used player on Safari

Added audio output in WAV format

Added Catalan (Spain) language and 1 standard female voice

Added Afrikaans (South Africa) language and 1 standard female voice

Added Bulgarian (Български) language and 1 standard female voice

Added Latvian (Latvietis) language and 1 standard male voice

Added Serbian (Cрпски) language and 1 standard female voice

Added Icelandic (Íslensk) language and 1 standard female voice

Updated firebase/php-jwt (v5.2.0 => v5.2.1)

Updated firebase/php-jwt (v5.2.0 => v5.2.1)

Updated guzzlehttp/psr7 (1.6.1 => 1.7.0)

Updated guzzlehttp/promises (v1.3.1 => 1.4.0)

Updated grpc/grpc (1.30.0 => 1.35.0)

Updated guzzlehttp/guzzle (7.1.0 => 7.2.0)

The Speaker Utilities plugin is now activated with the main plugin

Changed the way of loading Guzzle if this library is already loaded by another plugin

Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.7

Improved compatibility with AMP

Minor CSS improvements

Added audio metadata displaying

Added player autoplay setting

Added player loop setting

Hide web-kit audio player download button

Speaking Speed control step change to 0.1

Fixed issue with "Synthesize audio on save" option

Fixed 'hover' pseudo-event is deprecated warning

Removed migration from physical API key file to encoded DB option

Added new language Yue Chinese (yue-HK) and 4 voices for it

Removed 'volume' parameter, as it caused errors

Added FOLLOW LOCATION for CURL when parsing.

Added tag to speaker-mute shortcode. Use [speaker-mute tag="span"] to mute a couple word in a paragraph.

Fixed issue with script tags in content.

Improved error and exception processing.

Updated cloud-text-to-speech client libraries.

Improved [speaker-mute] shortcode.

Improved element editor form.

Fixed bulk processing with default speech templates.

Code improvements

Added Speech Template Editor(beta)

Added Elementor widget and WPBakery addon.

Added shortcode [speaker-prosody] to customize the pitch, speaking rate, and volume.

Added shortcode [speaker-say] to say but not show content.

Added Read the Title option

Added Volume Gain control in settings

Added a mirror for customers from Iran and other countries without access to Google Cloud

Added new rules to Assignments: WordPress Content, Home Page, Menu Items, URL

Added filter speaker_before_synthesis

Added filter speaker_before_part_speak

Added filter speaker_before_adding_watermarks

Added filter speaker_before_voice_divider

Added filter speaker_before_content_dividing

Added filter speaker_before_content_manipulations

Added Drag & Drop API Key uploading

Increased plugin speed

Added new voices (Standard and WaveNet)

Added Custom Post Types Support

Added Custom CSS tab in settings

Updated cloud-text-to-speech client library up to 1.0.1

Fixed multiple voices issue with different sample rates

Improved handling of special characters

Improved parsing mechanism

Improved Multi-sites Support

Improved plugin stability

Improved Security

Code refactoring

Added new language bn-IN, Bengali (বাংলা), with two voices: male and female.

Added new language gu-IN, Gujarati (ગુજરાતી), with two voices: male and female.

Added new language kn-IN, Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), with two voices: male and female.

Added new language ml-IN, Malayalam (മലയാളം), with two voices: male and female.

Added new language ta-IN, Tamil (தமிழ்), with two voices: male and female.

Added new language te-IN, Telugu (తెలుగు), with two voices: male and female.

Added new language th-TH, Thai (ภาษาไทย), with one male voice.

Improved compatibility with automated content creation systems

Fixed bug with synthesizing audio after

Added auto generation on post update as option

UI notification and messages improvements

Minor code improvements

Fixed bug with Elementor Builder

Fixed issue with plugin icon color

Other minor improvements

Added Taiwanese Chinese

Improved HTML entities processing

Added plugin update notifications

Moved module Bulk Process to the separate plugin

Fixed missed column name in the WordPress Screen Options

Fixed responsive behavior for the Speaker column

Improved the status tab

Fixed other minor issues

Added Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)

Added speech synthesis in different voices on one page (voice dialogue)

Added batch processing for WordPress posts and WordPress pages

Added the ability to mute(not voice) pieces of the page

Added the ability to add Intro Phrase to audio

Added the ability to add Outro Phrase to audio

Added the download display preference (Backend/Frontend)

Added pitch and speaking speed settings

Added plugin activation interface

Added the removal settings

Added system requirements check and notices

Improved compatibility with WPBakery Page Builder and Divi Builder

Plugin prepared for PHP 7.3

Moved plugin on the modern User Interface

Multiple minor improvements

Introduced a new way to process page content

Added compatibility with NextGen Gallery, Fusion Builder and TablePress

Added compatibility with old plugins

Improved compatibility with Divi Page Builder

Fixed broken Documentation link

Now, when you delete a post, it will be removed and the mp3 attached to it

Fixed generation large audio files bug

Fixed bug with HTML special characters