SMTP2GO for WordPress – vs VoxAI – AI Text to Speech, Audio & Summary for Posts

SMTP2GO’s WordPress plugin replaces the default built in wp_mail() functionality (phpmailer) and sends your email via SMTP2GO’s API and industry leading email delivery platform. SMTP2GO provides valuable insights into every aspect of your email’s life cycle, enabling you to track delivery rates, opens, clicks, and bounce rates. Whether your email is transactional, marketing, newsletter, contact form, or notification – we have got you covered. The main benefits of using the official SMTP2GO plugin: We have made our plugin as easy and low maintenance as possible – you can set it up in under ten minutes. Take over from the default WordPress email system for more reliable delivery – you can be confident your emails have arrived at their destination inbox successfully. Get access to our intuitive real-time reporting tools. You can uncover what is going on behind the scenes with delivery, open rates, click rates, bounce, and unsubscription reports. We offer secure worldwide servers with intelligent routing for network redundancy and speedy delivery. We handle SPF and DKIM on your behalf. SMTP2GO can even turn your “http” links into “https”. Diagnose and resolve delivery issues with our insightful reporting page, or reach out to our award-winning support team who are available almost 24/7 to help address problems in a timely, friendly fashion. We have a dedicated Review team who constantly monitor the reputations of our IP’s and we proactively alert members to any suspicious changes in their email regimen. Avoid poor reputation and throttling or limitations from over-used shared web hosts and other providers. Sign up here. Support If you have questions or need assistance then feel free to contact the support team by logging into your SMTP2GO dashboard and clicking the support icon on the top right navigation bar. More information on this plugin is available in our knowledgebase. About SMTP2GO Founded in 2006, SMTP2GO is a fast and scalable world class email service provider for sending transactional and marketing emails. It is developed and supported by a team of delivery experts at the forefront of the email industry, providing a reliable SMTP solution for over 35,000 businesses. Complexities such as reputation monitoring, SPF and DKIM are professionally managed for each customer. Native-English speaking support is available worldwide (agents in the USA, EU, UK, Australia, and New Zealand). Our data centers are located around the world, meaning lightning-fast connection speeds, network redundancy, and GDPR compliance.

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.