Voxis – Text to Speech, Audio Reader & Voice Synthesizer vs My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager

Transform your WordPress articles into accessible audio experiences. Voxis improves your website’s accessibility by offering users an intuitive, lightweight audio player to listen to your articles. By giving your visitors the option to “listen” instead of read, you can cater to auditory learners, visually impaired users, and multitaskers effortlessly. The free version securely utilizes the visitor’s native Web Speech API built directly into modern browsers, completely eliminating external API costs and server overhead. Core Free Features Native TTS Engine: Leverages the browser’s Web Speech API (100% Free, zero server load). WCAG Compliant Player: An accessible mini-player automatically injected at the top of posts. Flexible Display Options: Choose to display the player above or below content, on posts, pages, both, or disable auto-display to use the [voxis_summarizer_player] shortcode. Exclude by ID: Easily disable the player on specific posts or pages by entering their IDs. Customizable Speeds & Volume: Provide users the ability to read at preferred speeds (1.0x, 1.25x, 1.5x) and adjust the volume dynamically via the built-in volume slider. Content Filtering: Safely exclude unrelated blocks (like read-times or share links) using CSS Selectors directly from Settings. Secure & Lightweight: Written with strict adherence to WordPress coding standards, fully sanitised, and uses no inline scripts or styles. Premium Features (PRO) Looking for maximum quality and advanced features? Upgrade to Voxis PRO to unlock cloud neural voices, AI summaries, and background bulk generation. Upgrade to PRO for an advanced suite of tools and professional features: AI Audio Summaries: Generate intelligent ‘TL;DR’ text and dedicated audio summaries using AI engines like GPT-4o Mini, Claude 3, or Google Gemini. Hyper-Realistic Neural Voices: Use top-tier cloud TTS models (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud) for perfect narration identical on all devices. Bulk Generator: Process thousands of posts or pages in the background to automatically generate audio and summaries, keeping your site fully accessible in one click. Text Highlighting Sync: Keep users engaged with a visual word-by-word highlight tracing the text as it is read (available for full article reading). Draggable Floating Player: The player smoothly sticks to the corner of the screen so your visitors can continue listening while scrolling through long articles. Audio Jump Controls: Let users skip forward or backward incrementally (e.g. +/- 10s) while listening to Neural Voices or AI Summaries. Download MP3: Allow your users to download the high-quality Neural Voice MP3 to listen offline. Custom Post Metabox & Row Actions: A dedicated post control box and row actions to manually regenerate or delete the audio or summary when updating an old post.

My Calendar offers easy-to-use WordPress event management with rich options for custom displays. Display individual event calendars in WordPress Multisite, offer multiple views of calendars limited by event categories, locations or author, or show simple text-based lists of your upcoming events. Rich Event Calendar Features You’ll find enormous design flexibility for your custom calendar. With recurring event support, design customization tools, custom templating, and category and venue support out of the box, My Calendar gives you a great feature set to get your calendar set up. Built with Accessibility in Mind My Calendar is an events calendar focused on holistic accessibility: providing a positive experience for site visitors and administrators who use assistive technology. It includes built-in settings where you can describe the ADA compliance features of your events and venues. Accessibility is a critical part of your website, so your audience can get equal access and experience to the events you list. Learn about accessible events or visit the My Calendar demo Accessibility-first Software While My Calendar has a strong focus on backwards compatibility, it is officially built with an accessibility first mindset. That means that if a choice has to be made between improving accessibility and breaking backwards compatibility, the more accessible choice will always come first. Premium Event Management Looking for more? Buy My Calendar Pro, the premium extension for My Calendar. My Calendar Pro adds tons of great additional features: Support for user-submitted events, Custom field creation and management, integration between posting and event creation, Import events from outside sources, and support for sharing events between multiple sites. Sell Event Tickets Do you sell tickets for your events? Use My Tickets and sell tickets for My Calendar events. Set prices, ticket availability, and sell multiple events at the same time using My Tickets. Features: Calendar grid, card, and list views of events Month, multi-month, week, or daily view. Mini-calendar for compact displays (as widget or shortcode) Widgets: today’s events, upcoming events, mini calendar, event search Customize templates for event output Limit views by categories, location, author, or host Extensive support for recurring events. Edit or add single dates in recurring events Rich permissions handling to restrict access to parts of My Calendar Email notifications when events are scheduled or drafted Post to X, Bluesky, or Mastodon when events are created (using XPoster) Event location management Fetch events from a remote database. (Sharing events in a network of sites.) Multisite-friendly Integrated help page Shortcode Generator to create customized views of My Calendar SEO with JSON-LD structured data for events and venues. Export or subscribe via iCal or Google Calendar. Completely responsive events views Extensive public documentation. Hundreds of actions and filters for custom development Accessibility My Calendar is designed with accessibility in mind. All interfaces – both front and back end – are tested with various assistive technology. The plugin includes features for showing the accessibility services available for events and at physical venues, as well as providing access to your event information for users with disabilities. What’s in My Calendar Pro? Let your site visitors submit events to your site (pay to post or free!). Let logged-in users edit their events from the front-end. Custom field creator Create events when you publish a blog post Publish a blog post when you create an event Advanced search features Import events from .ics or .csv formats via file or URL. REST API support for sharing events between multiple sites. Translations Visit WordPress Translations to check progress or contribute to your language. Translating my plugins is always appreciated. Visit WordPress translations to help get your language to 100%!