Add Text To Speech To Your WordPress Blog With Odiogo

Want to give your read­ers another way to absorb your con­tent?  I encour­age you to check­out this arti­cle.  I’ll be cov­er­ing how to prop­erly setup and use Odiogo’s text to speech plu­gin for WordPress.

What it does is con­vert your writ­ten post into audio in (almost) real time, let­ting your users load up your site and lis­ten to your blog post instead of just read­ing it. By the end of the arti­cle you will have this func­tion­al­ity setup and added to your blog for free.

What Is Text To Speech?

If you’ve used any text to speech soft­ware before, like the one that comes with your mac, or win­dows vari­ants, then you have a good idea what I’m talk­ing about.  It’s basi­cally a com­puter read­ing text to you.

The voice work isn’t as good as human speech, but, by using this plu­gin… you get it for free.  That’s right, no work (other than installing the plu­gin, which I’ll show you how to do below).

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Why Should I Do This?

The most obvi­ous rea­son to do this is to give your vis­i­tors another way of absorb­ing your con­tent.  They can lis­ten to the audio for your post, while brows­ing another page, or doing work around the office or house.  It also increases acces­si­bil­ity, allow­ing users another way to access your con­tent, some­thing they may not of had the chance to with just text.

Ok, So What Do I Do?

Visit Odiogo.com and signup. All you need to do is put in your blog’s web­site address (URL) and your email address. After that you’re pre­sented with the abil­ity to down­load the plu­gin and given instruc­tions on how to install it.

You can also use the 1 click install option, which I cover in this arti­cle on how to install word­press plu­g­ins. Unzip the plu­gin and upload the direc­tory (odiogo_listen_button) to your wp-content/plugins direc­tory. Next you have to login to your dash­board and visit plu­g­ins, from here you acti­vate the Odi­ogo Lis­ten But­ton. Next you need to enter your Feed ID (You get this right after you sign up).  Under Set­tings on the left side of your dash­board click Odi­ogo Lis­ten But­ton Options. If you want your vis­i­tors to sub­scribe to your Odi­ogo feed, then under Appear­ance click Wid­gets and add the Odi­ogo Sub­scribe Button.

Done, So Now What?

Now you’re through, every­thing should be work­ing, and audio is instan­ta­neous. You can click at the top of the web­site on the “Lis­ten Now” but­ton to see how it works. (Please note, it may take a few hours before your entire blog is ready, but it should start show­ing up within a few days, usu­ally in hours.)

Video Overview of Odiogo’s Text To Speech

Con­clu­sion

In this arti­cle / video I showed you how to install the Odi­ogo Text To Audio plu­gin.  I talked about why this plu­gin is so impor­tant (giv­ing your read­ers another way to enjoy your con­tent (for free) and help expand your SEO mar­ket­ing efforts).  We went over step by step the exact steps to do and follow.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this arti­cle, and I’ll talk to you soon.

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