# Speaker — Changelog

`meteorgpl-plugin/speaker` · 91 releases, newest first, as published by the vendor.

## 4.1.14 — 2026-07-23

- 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

## 4.1.13 — 2026-04-10

- Fixed an issue where certain shortcode inputs were not properly sanitized

- Fixed display of saved multilingual settings in the Multilingual tab

## 4.1.12 — 2026-01-27

- Internal improvements for better stability and reliability

## 4.1.11 — 2026-01-16

- Fixed audio generation issues on PHP versions below 8

## 4.1.10 — 2026-01-07

- Fixed podcasts feed link

## 4.1.9 — 2025-12-24

- Improved svg icons loading

## 4.1.8 — 2025-09-11

- Updated voice names in the voices table

## 4.1.7 — 2025-08-08

- Fixed several issues related to audio generation using Chirp voices.

## 4.1.6 — 2025-05-22

- Fixed issue with the Google Studio voices

## 4.1.5 — 2025-04-09

- Added support for Chirp and Polyglot voices

## 4.1.4 — 2024-10-25

- Improved compatibility with the latest WordPress release

## 4.1.3 — 2024-10-24

- Added support of Journey and Casual voices

## 4.1.2 — 2024-09-23

- 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.

## 4.1.1 — 2024-09-18

- Resolved compatibility issue with the Polylang plugin

## 4.1.0 — 2024-04-26

- PHP7 compatibility moved to sub-plugin Speaker PHP7

- Updated Google packages to version 1.8.3

- Fixed default speech template for post formats

## 4.0.18 — 2024-04-09

- Fixed Google API error handler

## 4.0.17 — 2024-04-08

- Refined Google API error handler

## 4.0.16 — 2024-04-04

- Fixed API-key reset link

## 4.0.15 — 2024-03-28

- 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

## 4.0.14 — 2024-03-12

- Added iOS unmute setting to workaround iPhone mute button

- Implement filter for multilang locale

- Fixed HTML content split issue

## 4.0.13 — 2024-02-14

- Fixed long-paragraph dividing

## 4.0.12 — 2024-02-05

- Fixed issue during a plugin installation process

- Fixed Wavesurfer player layout for long page titles

## 4.0.11 — 2023-11-21

- Fixed the problem of selecting the default Speech Template for Post formats

## 4.0.10 — 2023-11-17

- Fixed Custom Audio file metabox interface

## 4.0.9 — 2023-11-07

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.3

## 4.0.8 — 2023-10-24

- Fixed fail of website if Google Cloud banned site DNS

- Fixed warning in editor using GravityForm + Conversational Addon

- Fixed looped audio for MediaElement player

## 4.0.7 — 2023-10-12

- Added settings to add pauses for table markup

- Fixed voice change selector for the Speech Template element

## 4.0.6 — 2023-10-10

- Fixed missing Screen Options inside post editor for old WordPress editor

- Fixed default RSS template values

- Fixed problem with entering Google Drive key

## 4.0.5 — 2023-10-07

- Fixed creating new Speech Templates error

- Fixed managing plugin columns on the posts list page

## 4.0.4 — 2023-10-05

- Added compatibility with WPGlobus

## 4.0.3 — 2023-10-03

- Fixed wrong characters in French and Italian interface translation files

## 4.0.2 — 2023-10-02

- 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

## 4.0.1 — 2023-09-28

- Default value for Compatibility option changed to 7.4

## 4.0.0 — 2023-09-28

- 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

## 3.4.6 — 2023-04-24

- Improved translations files

## 3.4.5 — 2023-02-22

- Hebrew (עִברִית) language and 4 voice

- Added settings group for fine tune player display on different themes

## 3.4.4 — 2023-02-14

- Added Basque (Vasco) language and 1 voice

- Added Galician (Galego) language and 1 voice

## 3.4.3 — 2023-01-21

- 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

## 3.4.2 — 2022-12-28

- Added 14 News voices for English languages

- Improved accessibility of the default browser player

## 3.4.1 — 2022-10-12

- Added Audio Encoding option, Sample rate option and Volume option

## 3.4.0 — 2022-10-04

- 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

## 3.3.10 — 2022-09-03

- Added Marathi (India) language and 6 voices

## 3.3.9 — 2022-08-13

- Fixed special characters escape in the Download link

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

## 3.3.8 — 2022-04-12

- Replaced cURL page request by wp_remote

## 3.3.7 — 2022-02-19

- Fixed Speaker and Divi Builder compatibility issue

## 3.3.6 — 2022-02-16

- Added the option to disable checking for plugin updates

- Unused packages removed from the Google API dependencies

- Fixed error after plugin uninstalling

## 3.3.5 — 2022-01-21

- Added option for store and access audio files in the Media Library

## 3.3.4 — 2022-01-13

- Added saving audio meta to the post meta

- Fixed language choice for long posts in the Speech Template Editor

## 3.3.3 — 2021-11-10

- Fixed player buttons align in Safari

- Fixed translation issue for 'Playback speed:' string

## 3.3.2 — 2021-10-04

- Fixed cURL error

## 3.3.1 — 2021-09-07

- Added Chrome Style player skin for all browsers

## 3.3.0 — 2021-08-29

- Added Playback Speed controls for front-end

- Added saving audio files to Google Drive

- Fixed few translations issues

## 3.2.7 — 2021-07-26

- Fixed voice preview in the admin area

- Fixed UI of the settings page for Apple mobile devices

## 3.2.6 — 2021-07-14

- Added Punjabi (India) language and 8 voices

- Added support for the Madara Theme (by wpstylish)

## 3.2.5 — 2021-06-11

- Added developers option for voicing custom content

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

## 3.2.4 — 2021-05-29

- Added Dutch (Belgium) language and 4 voices

## 3.2.3 — 2021-05-14

- Added Malay (Malaysia) language and 4 voices

## 3.2.2 — 2021-04-09

- Added Unites States Spanish (Hispanoamericano) language and 6 voice

## 3.2.1 — 2021-03-31

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

- Fixed white Activation tab

- Fixed error in Now Used player on Safari

## 3.2.0 — 2021-03-11

- 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

## 3.1.2 — 2021-02-06

- 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

## 3.1.1 — 2021-01-06

- Added Romanian language (ro-RO) and 1 female voices for it

## 3.1.0 — 2020-09-24

- Updated Google Cloud text-to-speech libraries up to 1.2

## 3.0.9 — 2020-09-16

- Fixed Bulk audio generation

## 3.0.8 — 2020-09-01

- Fixed issue with Custom Post types savings

## 3.0.7 — 2020-08-26

- 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

## 3.0.6 — 2020-08-21

- Fixed issue with plugin update

## 3.0.5 — 2020-08-14

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

- Removed 'volume' parameter, as it caused errors

## 3.0.4 — 2020-07-18

- Fixed plugin update and activation issues

## 3.0.3 — 2020-07-04

- 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.

## 3.0.2 — 2020-07-02

- Fixed issue with script tags in content.

- Improved error and exception processing.

- Updated cloud-text-to-speech client libraries.

## 3.0.1 — 2020-07-01

- Improved [speaker-mute] shortcode.

- Improved element editor form.

- Fixed bulk processing with default speech templates.

- Code improvements

## 3.0.0 — 2020-06-25

- 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

## 2.1.2 — 2020-05-01

- 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.

## 2.1.1 — 2020-02-28

- Improved compatibility with automated content creation systems

- Fixed bug with synthesizing audio after

## 2.1.0 — 2020-02-27

- Added auto generation on post update as option

- UI notification and messages improvements

- Minor code improvements

## 2.0.6 — 2020-01-16

- Fixed bug with Elementor Builder

- Fixed issue with plugin icon color

- Other minor improvements

## 2.0.5 — 2019-12-08

- Added Taiwanese Chinese

- Improved HTML entities processing

## 2.0.4 — 2019-12-06

- Improved page processing algorithm

## 2.0.3 — 2019-11-13

- Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.3

## 2.0.2 — 2019-11-08

- 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

## 2.0.1 — 2019-11-02

- Fixed plugin activation issue

## 2.0.0 — 2019-11-01

- 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

## 1.1.1 — 2019-09-07

- Hotfix for the Fusion Builder

## 1.1.0 — 2019-09-07

- Introduced a new way to process page content

- Added compatibility with NextGen Gallery, Fusion Builder and TablePress

- Added compatibility with old plugins

## 1.0.5 — 2019-08-22

- Improved compatibility with Divi Page Builder

- Fixed broken Documentation link

## 1.0.4 — 2019-08-21

- Fixed issue in WPBakery audio player

## 1.0.3 — 2019-08-21

- Improved compatibility with WPBakery Page Builder

## 1.0.2 — 2019-08-16

- Improved compatibility with Voicer WordPress Plugin

## 1.0.1 — 2019-08-15

- 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

## 1.0.0 — 2019-08-13

- Initial release