Audio Editor & Recorder vs VoxAI – AI Text to Speech, Audio & Summary for Posts

Record, edit and publish audio directly from your WordPress site. No external tools, no complex software — everything happens inside WordPress. 🎯 Use cases Audio Editor & Recorder is designed for real-world use cases across many industries: Teachers can collect oral assignments, language exercises or student recordings directly on their website Musicians can quickly record ideas, demos or share audio sketches Podcasters and journalists can capture interviews or voice notes without external tools Customer support teams can collect voice messages instead of written forms Content creators can enrich their posts with audio content, stories or narration Whether you need a simple voice recorder or a lightweight audio editor, this plugin helps you centralize everything inside WordPress. 🎙️ Record or upload audio Record audio directly from the browser (microphone) Upload existing audio files (voice, music, podcasts, sounds) Works on desktop and mobile ✂️ Edit audio visually Waveform-based editor Cut, copy, paste, crop, delete Select and modify specific parts of your audio Add multiple audio segments 📦 Save & manage audio in WordPress Save recordings as a custom “Audio” post type Automatically available in your Media Library Reuse your audio anywhere on your site 🔗 Display & use audio anywhere Insert audio into your content Display all audios with shortcode: [audio-editor-list] Personal user audio list: [audio-my-list] (page: /my-audios/) Frontend editor for users: [audio-editor] ⚡ Flexible shortcodes Compact version: [audio-editor mini=”true”] Customize button labels Show or hide specific controls via attributes ⚙️ Easy configuration Find all settings under: Settings → Audio Editor ⏱️ Free version limitations Maximum recording duration: 5 minutes Maximum total audio length: 5 minutes Try the live demo of the audio editor directly from your browser. Free vs Pro The free (Lite) version is a complete recorder and single-track waveform editor. Audio Editor Pro turns it into a full multi-track audio studio — a mini audio workstation inside WordPress — built for storytelling, podcasts and sound design. Free (Lite) version Record from the microphone and upload audio files Single-track waveform editor: cut, copy, paste, crop, delete Gain +/- and Undo / Redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y) Frontend editor with [audio-editor] and a compact mini recorder Save as a WordPress “Audio” post and reuse it anywhere Up to 5 minutes per recording Pro version — the multi-track montage studio Multi-track mixing: up to 4 tracks with per-track volume, mute, solo and automatic mixdown Cursor-precise montage: drop an uploaded file, a Sound Library pad or a new recording exactly where the cursor is, in the active track — place a jingle, a sound effect or a narration line at the right instant Sound Library: one-click jingle and music-bed pads prepared in the settings (radio-style mixing) Audio effects: fade in/out, normalize, silence Live waveform while recording, with REC indicator and timer Unlimited recording, plus reliable export of long audio (15–30+ minutes) to a clean MP3 Download audio as MP3 for your users Guest (logged-out) submissions and re-editing of existing audio ([user-audio-edit]) 7 design templates + full color customization (20+ shortcode attributes) 🚀 Upgrade to Pro Build audiobooks and tales with narration, sound effects and music beds, produce podcasts with intro jingles, or layer voice-overs — everything in the browser, then mix and export in one click. Turn the editor into a multi-track studio with Audio Editor Pro. 💬 Feedback More info on our website Please don’t hesitate to leave us suggestions for future release. Have an idea or suggestion? We’d love to hear from you to improve future versions.

VoxAI adds AI text to speech and an AI-generated summary to your WordPress posts — with a single click. Convert any article into natural audio narration so visitors can listen to your posts or have them read aloud, and give every article a smart AI summary at the top. No recording equipment, no microphone, no manual editing. Powered by the OpenAI text to speech and summarization models. Readers stay longer. Bounce rates drop. And your content becomes accessible to audiences who prefer to listen — on their commute, at the gym, or while multitasking. ✨ Key Features AI Summary Generator Uses OpenAI GPT-4o Mini to read your article and write a concise, accurate summary. The summary appears in a collapsible panel inside your post — clean, discreet, and on-brand. Text-to-Speech Audio Player Converts your full article into natural-sounding audio using OpenAI’s text to speech (TTS) engine, so readers can listen to your posts or have them read aloud. Six high-quality voices available (Alloy, Echo, Fable, Onyx, Nova, Shimmer). The MP3 is saved to your server — no recurring API call for playback. Great for accessibility and for turning your blog into a podcast-style audio experience. Reading Time Estimator Automatically calculates and displays the estimated reading time for every post. Configurable and translatable. Smart Positioning Choose to inject the AI Reader widget before the content, after the content, or disable injection entirely and use the shortcodes manually. Shortcodes for Full Control – [voxaiau_summary] — Displays the AI Summary panel. – [voxaiau_tts] — Displays the AI Audio player. 📝 Works Where the Official AI Plugin Doesn’t The official WordPress AI plugin is Gutenberg-only. Every feature it offers — title generation, summarization, excerpt, alt text — lives inside the block editor sidebar. Activate the Classic Editor plugin and all of it disappears. VoxAI is different. It was built to work in both environments from day one: Gutenberg — Full sidebar panel with real-time generation status, voice selector, and cost estimator. Classic Editor — Dedicated metabox with exactly the same features: generate summary, generate audio, voice selector, per-post cost display. If your site runs the Classic Editor — or if you manage a client site that does — VoxAI is the only AI audio and summary plugin that works out of the box, no editor swap required. 🔗 WordPress 7.0 & Official AI Plugin Compatible VoxAI integrates natively with the WordPress 7.0 AI infrastructure: WP AI Client support — When the site has an AI Connector configured (Settings → Connectors), VoxAI uses it for summary generation without requiring a separate API key. Falls back to your OpenAI key if no connector is configured. Abilities API — Registers voxai/generate-audio and voxai/generate-summary as discoverable AI Abilities. They appear in the Abilities Explorer and can be triggered by AI agents or automation workflows. Complements, not competes — The official AI plugin handles text features (title, excerpt, classification). VoxAI adds the one thing it doesn’t have: professional audio narration. Editor-agnostic — Unlike the official AI plugin, VoxAI works identically with Gutenberg and with the Classic Editor plugin active. 🔧 Minimal configuration required Paste your OpenAI API key in Settings → AI Audio & Summary, choose which post types to activate it on, and you’re done. The widget renders automatically. 🌐 Languages English (default) Português do Brasil (pt_BR) — fully translated 🔒 Privacy & External Services This plugin sends post content to the OpenAI API only when you explicitly request a summary or audio generation. No data is sent automatically without user action. This plugin uses the OpenAI API. By using this plugin, you agree to: – OpenAI Terms of Service – OpenAI Privacy Policy No data is stored on our servers. The generated MP3 is saved locally on your WordPress install.