My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager vs Reinvent WP Text to Speech

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%!

AI-powered text-to-speech plugin for WordPress that converts posts into natural audio with real-time word highlighting and integration with OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud, Amazon Polly, and Azure. Designed as a flexible multi-provider TTS bridge, Reinvent WP Text to Speech (formerly Natural Text To Speech) allows you to switch voice engines without changing plugins. Ideal for news sites, educational platforms, accessibility-focused websites, agencies managing multiple client installations, and content-heavy WooCommerce stores. Simple, Powerful Audio: Install now and see the play button on your posts in seconds! No complex setup, no API key required for basic use, no credit card. Just install and let your visitors listen to your content with professional text to speech voices with polished read aloud player. This plugin features an automatic setup that is triggered right after you activate the plugin, ensuring your audio player is ready in seconds. ✅ Free version: Cloud-based Text to Speech API (Reinvent WP Cloud Free 20K characters / month or ElevenLabs 10K characters/month). Use our free voices to start your text to speech journey today. 🚀 PRO version: Unlock premium Text to Speech workflows with both bring-your-own-key integrations and Reinvent WP Cloud PRO. Connect directly to OpenAI TTS, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud TTS, Amazon Polly, and Azure AI Speech, or use managed Reinvent WP Cloud PRO with no API key required, 40,000 characters / month, and models, voices, and speaking instructions prompt for active monthly or annual plugin subscribers. Upgrade to PRO here for the highest quality lifelike voices powered by advanced audio file generation. 🎬 Try it now — Experience High-Quality ElevenLabs Voices Our free version includes integration with ElevenLabs voices. Receive FREE 10,000 characters / month from elevenlabs. 🎬 OpenAI Text to Speech for WordPress Reinvent WP Text To Speech – The Ultimate Audio Experience Reinvent WP Text To Speech is THE ONLY WordPress text to speech plugin that highlights sentences and words as they are spoken. Accessibility Focused: Our plugin helps accessibility-focused websites add a read-aloud experience for visitors with visual impairments, reading difficulties, dyslexia, ADHD, or users who simply prefer listening. The player includes keyboard-accessible controls, visible focus states, ARIA labels, screen-reader-friendly playback status updates, sentence and word highlighting, and customizable highlight colors for WCAG 2.1 AA and ADA compliant WordPress experiences. Learn why our accessibility features make us enterprise-ready → Advanced Audio Player: Unlike other basic tts plugins, our audio player is more advanced, it has glowing aura that can dance based on the spoken audio. Text to Speech outside WordPress Need the same player for a custom website, React, or Next.js app? Use the JavaScript embed or NPM package: JavaScript embed React / Next.js NPM package Support Do you have any questions? Feel free to reach us or chat with our AI customer support, available 24/7 in real time on our Reinvent WP website or email: [email protected] Join our community on telegram or discord Bug Report Form | Feature Request Form Use-cases for Text to Speech & Audio News & Blogs – Let readers listen to articles with a natural text to speech voice on the move. Read Aloud WordPress Posts – Add a read aloud button so visitors can listen to article content, read post aloud, or follow synchronized audio while your WordPress text to speech player highlights the current sentence. e-Learning – Provide text to speech audio narration for tutorials, lessons, and online courses. Web Accessibility – Add audio playback with keyboard-accessible controls, ARIA labels, visible focus states, and inclusive reading support for accessibility-focused websites targeting WCAG 2.1 AA and ADA compliance. Content Conversion – Convert your post into an audio file, generated audio, or MP3 file for YouTube or social media. No need for expensive voiceovers; let AI voices do the work. Podcasting – Use our text to speech audio generation to convert blog posts to podcast audio episodes automatically. YouTube Voicing – Generate high-quality audio voiceovers without hiring voice actors. Audiobooks – Create immersive audio versions of your long-form WordPress content. Marketing – Create compelling voice ads and audio clips from your written marketing copy. SEO Optimization – Increase time-on-site by giving users the option to listen to audio. WooCommerce Content – Add listenable audio to product descriptions and other WooCommerce product content. Supported Languages We support many languages, accents, female or male voices, because this plugin is a bridge that connects to many text to speech (TTS) cloud API providers like OpenAI TTS, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud TTS, Amazon Polly, and Microsoft Azure. So the supported languages and voices extend according to the text to speech cloud API provider you choose: OpenAI TTS: 57 languages and 11 voices. ElevenLabs: 29+ languages and 1000+ voices. Google Cloud TTS: 40+ languages/variants and 200+ voices Amazon Polly: 41 languages/variants and 100+ voices. Microsoft Azure Neural TTS: 140+ languages/variants and 400+ voices. In total: this plugin gives you access to approximately 140+ unique languages / language-variants and 1,000+ unique voices across providers. All languages are supported, except Kannada and Thai. The following languages have been tested and confirmed working, click the link on the language name to see the live demo. Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh. Other: Telugu, Bengali, Farsi Pricing We provide the best service you can get. Our technology is designed to help you outperform your competitors. Our pricing reflects the high value we deliver. Want to beat your competitors? Choosing our plugin is the best decision you can make. Monthly 1 site $6 / month 5 sites $20 / month 20 sites $120 / month Annually 1 site $69 / year 5 sites $79 / year 20 sites $99 / year Lifetime 1 site $200 5 sites $700 20 sites $1000 Purchase now FREE Features Essential features designed for small websites High-Quality Text to Speech: Convert text to audio with live sentence highlighting, word highlighting, and a clear text to speech highlight feature. Free AI Voices: Access 20,000 characters / month using Reinvent WP Cloud. ElevenLabs TTS Integration: Connect to realistic ElevenLabs voices and start with free ElevenLabs text to speech usage. Easy Audio Placement: Simple shortcode integration: [natural_tts] Customizable Audio Player: Dynamic themes, custom colors, a TTS button, custom button labels, and a modern voice reader for your text to speech plugin. Accessibility UI: Keyboard-accessible player controls, ARIA labels, visible focus states, screen-reader-friendly playback updates, and sentence and word highlighting with customizable colors for more readable, high-contrast listening experiences on WCAG 2.1 AA and ADA compliant websites. Audio Analytics: Track total listening time and audio engagement. Ultra-Lightweight: Minimal impact on page speed—just ~300KB on first load, deferred and only loaded when needed. Immersive Audio Experience: Glowing aura effects on the TTS play button, optional full page player experiences, and modern text to speech player design. PRO Features The PRO version is designed to help you dominate your niche with the best audio tools. Reinvent WP Cloud PRO: Use managed premium cloud voices without bringing your own API key. Includes 40,000 characters / month for active monthly or annual subscribers. Premium API Support: Integrate with OpenAI TTS, ElevenLabs, Google Cloud TTS, Amazon Polly, and Azure TTS from one WordPress text to speech plugin. Smart Audio Caching: Save money on your TTS API costs with intelligent audio generation. Direct Voice Costs: Pay only for what you use directly to your chosen voice provider. Advanced Audio Shortcodes: Unlock additional player attributes and control options. AI Pronunciation Correction: Specifically designed for technical terms in academic papers, math, and science voices. Export to Audio: Generate TTS audio from your full post or article as a downloadable MP3 audio file, generated audio file, or bulk MP3 generation workflow. Podcast: Turn selected WordPress posts into podcast episodes and generate an RSS feed ready for Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast platforms. Other: Many more features are available beyond what we can explain here, and you can even request custom features to better fit your needs. Upgrade here for PRO version Shortcodes Shortcodes let you display the text to speech player and control how it behaves. Visual shortcode editor: Build your text to speech shortcode directly inside the Gutenberg post editor (search for “Reinvent WP TTS”) Shortcode settings are flexible, so you can adjust the player position, content source, language, audio source, and playback behavior for each post or page. Share your ideas through the Reinvent WP feedback page Here the example: [natural_tts target-tts-direction="below"] [natural_tts target-tts-selector="body"] [natural_tts lang="ru-RU"] [natural_tts src="https://example.com/audio.mp3"] [natural_tts trigger-play="all"] // any configurations [natural_tts] { "read_title": true, } [/natural_tts] Roadmap We always improve our functionality while maintain lightweight. 1.1.x – 1.9.x – May 2025 – September 2025 Web vistors can select the voice they want Customization: Setting highlighting classname, Dynamic Theme (based on your WP theme) for the TTS Control Button, Dynamic Font Size (Based on your WP theme). It can adapt to any template. Add option to read only defined HTML selectors. You can define text to speech config (preset) for each your site language (maybe your site has two or more language) Web vistors can select the preset of multi language that you define in plugin setting page. Analytics – Button Click Activity, Player Visibility, Total Listening Time, Completions, Completion Rate, API Usage, Error Happen, and more … Lightweight plugin – minify the js asset so it’s just ~300KB on first load on your article deferred and only loaded when needed. Error Logging – You can find error log from the plugin system in the plugin setting page. Export posts / article to audio file. (You can use for audio book, podcast or youtube video) Smart Cache & Audio Generation system – Generate audio only for sections users actually listen to Immersive glowing aura on tts play button or entire post page as audio played 2.0.x – 2.3.x – October – December 2025 Visual Shortcode Editor (You can set the plugin config JSON using the visual shortcode editor on the plugin settings page) Exclude tts player with post category Play sequence by title, subtitle, author, and date post. Localization (Auto translate all text on the TTS control button), you can also overide the text inside the plugin setting page Custom js code for abbreviation function (modify text before sending to the tts cloud api for making audio file) Rate limit API to protect abuse Auto-detects WP Admin Color Scheme – Matches your WordPress admin profile color. Perfect for agencies, as the plugin elegantly adapts to your WordPress theme. Support ElevenLabs Audio Tags using model eleven_v3 – let you shape how AI voices sound by prompting. Add shortcode ‘lang’ attribute to set the language of the Text-to-Speech control UI for a specific post or shortcode instance. You can use TTS based on your own voice using Voice Cloning from ElevenLabs 2.4.x – 2.6.x – Jan – March 2026 Instant Play Feature, No waiting time between user click and audio playback Added Post to Podcast, a feature that automatically turns selected WordPress posts into podcast episodes and generates an RSS feed ready for Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast platforms. What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) Plugin Setting Page realtime preview of the post that TTS will read Public Downloadable MP3 Bulk MP3 Generation Advanced Analytics: Completion Rate Metrics Audio schema markup for SEO with AudioObject JSON-LD; example page validates successfully Add the TTS player with the Gutenberg block editor and customize it directly in the post editor. 2.7.x – 2.9.x – Apr – May 2026 Add slider style tts player TTS Security with configurable 5-hour, daily, monthly, and custom character quota guards Add Spoken Prefix Rules so you can automatically say a custom phrase before matched content such as WordPress image captions Any suggestion? fill this form Compatibility – Fits perfectly with your existing theme and plugins Reinvent WP Text To Speech works smoothly with most modern WordPress themes, page builders, and popular plugins. It also adapts its colors to better match your site’s design. Multilingual: WPML, GTranslate, TranslatePress, Polylang Builders & Themes: Elementor, Avada, WPBakery, Divi Caching: WP-Optimize, LiteSpeed Cache, Autoptimize, W3 Total Cache, Speed Optimizer Custom Post Types: ACF, Custom Post Type UI, Toolset Types Other: Yoast Duplicate Post, Easy Table of Contents External Services When a user opens a post or article and starts playing the audio, the audio is generated/served from your server — we do not make any API calls to our servers to create the audio. All your plugin configurations, TTS API secret keys, and audio files are stored in your own self-hosted WordPress. This makes it private and secure. When you open the plugin settings page in WP Admin, it makes an API call to our server to check the plan you are currently using. Our server is live at https://services.reinventwp.com, and it is used for: Subscription authentication (via Freemius) Error logging Data sent to our API: – Freemius user info (email, website URL, license, plan) The plugin also connects to https://reinventwp.com, which is used for: Fetching active promotional offers shown in the plugin settings page Recording basic promo interaction events, such as display, dismiss, coupon copy, and CTA clicks Terms of Service | Privacy Policy