Reinvent WP Text to Speech vs SimpleTOC – Table of Contents Block

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 Dynamic Look – It can adapt to any template styles. Add option to read only defined HTML selectors. You can define text to speech config (we call it ‘preset’) for each your site language (maybe your site has two or more language) Analytics – Button Click Activity, Player Visibility, Total Listening Time, Completions, Completion Rate Metrics, 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 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) 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. Public Downloadable MP3 Bulk MP3 Generation 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. Search for “Reinvent WP TTS” 2.7.x – 3.x.x – Apr – Aug 2026 11 player styles, including Modern, Classic Controls, Floating Pill, Waveform Card, Glassmorphism, Chapter Timeline, Accessible Controls, and Article Contents TTS Security: Limit usage 5-hour, daily, monthly character quota guards and rate limiting 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

Add a Table of Contents block to your posts and pages. The TOC is a nested list of links to all heading found in the post or page. To use it, simply add a block and search for “SimpleTOC” or just “TOC”. The maximum depth of the toc can be configured in in the blocks’ sidebar among many other options. There can hide the headline “Table of Contents” and add your own by using a normal heading block. Spin up a new WordPress instance with the SimpleTOC plugin already installed. User Feedback “It is lightweight, stable, and fully compatible with WordPress Full Site Editing. A reliable solution that integrates seamlessly and performs exactly as expected.” — @js100 on wordpress.org “Does the job perfectly, and adds no bloat.” — @clicknathan on wordpress.org “Simple yet powerful. Great plugin that does exactly what you need.” — @mixey on wordpress.org Accessibility This plugin is designed & developed for WCAG 2.2 level AA conformance. The plugin is tested with assistive technology and intended to be accessible, however some third party plugins or themes may affect the individual accessibility on a given website. If you find an accessibility issue, please let us know and we’ll try to address it promptly. Hidden TOCs use native and semantics without extra ARIA references that require custom IDs. Features Designed for Gutenberg. Zero configuration: Add the SimpleTOC block to your post and that’s it. Minimal and valid HTML output. Utilizes the browser’s built-in details tag for a collapsible interface. No JavaScript or CSS by default. Optional features such as the accordion menu, smooth scrolling, or box style add minimal assets only when enabled. Optional Box style in Gutenberg’s Styles tab with a default gray background. Native text, link, background, spacing, and typography controls. Global block styling through theme.json. Inherits the style of your theme. Smooth scrolling effect using CSS. Accessibility built-in by following web standards. Standard Gutenberg block wrapper with navigation role and ARIA label attributes. Translated in multiple languages. Including German, Japanese, Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Spanish and Latvia. Ideal for creating a Frequently Asked Questions section on your website. Customization Administrators can utilize global settings to supersede the individual block settings. Set text, link, and background colors in Gutenberg’s Styles tab. Native block support for wide and full width. Set vertical margins and padding with native spacing controls. Control the maximum depth of the headings. Choose between an ordered, bullet HTML list. Or indent the list. Select the Box style directly in Gutenberg’s Styles tab. Select a heading level or turn it into a paragraph. Disable the h2 heading of the TOC block and add your own. Compatibility GeneratePress and Rank Math support. Works with popular AMP plugins. How to contribute SimpleTOC is open-source and developed on GitHub Pages. If you find a bug or have an idea for a feature please feel free to contribute and create a pull request. Credits Many thanks to Tom J Nowell and and Sally CJ who both helped me a lot with my questions over at wordpress.stackexchange.com And many more thanks to all the developers on GitHub who helped me making SimpleTOC what it is today! Thanks to Quintus Valerius Soranus for inventing the Table of Contents around 100 BC.