Joomla Text To Speech Plugin — GSpeech TTS

GSpeech is a lightweight Joomla TTS bridge to the GSpeech Cloud. Voice synthesis, storage, smart caching, and audio delivery run in the cloud. Your Joomla host is not a speech server.

No API Keys Required. You do not need to create Google Cloud, OpenAI, or Gemini projects or paste provider API keys into Joomla. Connect your website to the GSpeech Cloud Console and manage your audio from one place.

🔗 USEFUL LINKS

➤ Live demo: https://gspeech.io/demos
➤ Joomla setup: https://gspeech.io/docs/connect-to-joomla-website
➤ Dashboard: https://gspeech.io/dashboard
➤ Pricing: https://gspeech.io/#pricing
➤ Videos: https://gspeech.io/videos
➤ Support: https://gspeech.io/contact-us

⚡ GET STARTED IN MINUTES

➤ Create a free GSpeech account — no credit card required:
https://gspeech.io/register

➤ Create a website:
https://gspeech.io/docs/create-a-website

➤ Connect Joomla to GSpeech:
https://gspeech.io/docs/connect-to-joomla-website

➤ Create a Read Highlighted Text (RHT) Player:
https://gspeech.io/docs/create-a-rht-player

➤ Create a Full Page Player:
https://gspeech.io/docs/create-a-full-player

➤ Joomla shortcodes and Custom HTML mounts:
https://gspeech.io/docs/connect-to-joomla-website

✨ UNIFIED AI VOICE ENGINE

Commercial plans bring together OpenAI, Gemini, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, Chirp3 HD, Neural2, Polyglot, and WaveNet through one GSpeech platform.

✅ 300+ voices for natural, expressive narration.
✅ 68 languages on Free and Personal plans.
✅ 98 languages on Personal-2 and above.
✅ No separate provider accounts or API keys.
✅ One GSpeech plan — no Google, OpenAI, or Gemini billing to manage.

Free GSpeech uses machine voices; commercial plans unlock the Unified AI Voice Engine. GSpeech does not currently include ElevenLabs.

☁️ GENERATE ONCE, KEEP AND PLAY

Audio is created once, cached, and replayed. Playback is not a new TTS call.

✅ Cloud processing — speech synthesis runs outside your Joomla server.
✅ Smart caching — stored audio is reused for subsequent plays.
✅ Unlimited playback of stored files.
✅ Smart Audio Sync — updated article text can regenerate stored audio.
✅ Files stay in your dashboard if your plan later changes.

🎧 FLEXIBLE JOOMLA AUDIO PLAYERS

Choose the player that fits your content and layout:

➤ Full Page Player — narration for articles and pages.
➤ Button Player — a compact playback button.
➤ Circle Player — a circular audio player.
➤ Context Player — follows visitors as they scroll.
➤ Floating Player — audio controls in a floating layout.
➤ Read Highlighted Text (RHT) Player — select any passage and hear it.

✅ 16+ player themes.
✅ Mobile-ready and cross-browser.
✅ Commercial RHT views add translation and text panels.
✅ MP3 downloads on commercial plans.
✅ Welcome, intro, and outro messages.

🌍 REAL-TIME AUDIO TRANSLATION

Let visitors listen to your content in another language directly from the player.

✅ Available from any player, including RHT.
✅ Works even on a single-language website.
✅ Multilingual Joomla support — GTranslate and other language switches with matching audio.

🎨 VOICE STYLES & PRONUNCIATION

✅ Voice Vibes — 100+ expressive styles, including warm, confident, calm, whisper, narrator, and brand direction.
✅ Custom voice prompts for more control over delivery.
✅ Voice tuning — adjust pitch and speed.
✅ Smart Pronunciation Aliases — control brand names, acronyms, and locale-specific pronunciation, such as en-US versus en-GB.
✅ Visible page text stays unchanged.

Pronunciation aliases guide:
https://gspeech.io/blog/language-based-pronunciation-aliases

Voice catalog includes:

➤ Google Cloud — Standard, WaveNet, Neural2, Polyglot, Journey, Studio, and News.
➤ Chirp3 HD, Gemini Flash, and Gemini Pro — approximately 30 voices each, per language.
➤ OpenAI — 11 default voices plus OpenAI HD with custom voice prompts.

Voice Vibes are expressive styles, not additional voice IDs.

⚙️ CONTENT CONTROL & CLOUD CONSOLE

✅ Intelligent Content Isolation — use Content Selector and CSS mapping to choose what is read.
✅ Exclude menus, modules, ads, footers, URLs, and shortcodes.
✅ Add the nospeech class to skip specific blocks.
✅ Manage websites, widgets, voices, aliases, and your audio library from the Cloud Console.
✅ Audio analytics — plays, countries, cities, devices, operating systems, and browsers.
✅ No special server requirements.

💡 WHY ADD TEXT TO SPEECH TO JOOMLA?

✅ Accessibility — provide audio for visitors who prefer listening, including people with visual impairment or dyslexia.
✅ Engagement — make articles listenable while commuting or multitasking.
✅ Long-form content — up to 7 hours of playback per article.
✅ Multilingual listening — help visitors access content in their preferred language.
✅ Content experience — give visitors another way to consume your Joomla content.

Audio supports accessibility but does not by itself establish WCAG compliance. GSpeech does not currently advertise built-in audio SEO schema markup.

🎯 USE CASES

➤ Joomla blogs and news — narrated articles.
➤ Education and documentation — audio lessons and guides.
➤ Business and brochure sites — listen to services and about pages.
➤ Accessibility-focused projects — selected-text listening with RHT.
➤ Multilingual Joomla websites — matching audio for translated content.
➤ Content marketing — reuse written Joomla copy as audio.

⭐ TRUSTED BY THOUSANDS OF WEBSITES

GSpeech processes about 200 million characters per month across thousands of websites.

✅ Rated 4.8/5 on WordPress.org.
✅ 220+ five-star reviews across WordPress.org, JED, AppSumo, and Trustpilot.
✅ AppSumo Customer Favorites — 4.98/5 from 40+ verified reviews.
✅ Monthly and annual plans, plus lifetime availability via AppSumo.

The same engine also powers WordPress, Wix, Shopify, and custom HTML sites.

Since 2012, GSpeech has offered Listen to Selected Text, now the Read Highlighted Text (RHT) Player. The Cloud Console launched in 2023.

🗣️ LANGUAGES

Popular languages include English (US, UK, AU, IN), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Armenian, and many more.

➤ Free and Personal: 68 languages.
➤ Pro and above: 98 languages.

Full language list — the same GSpeech catalog applies to Joomla:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gspeech/#faq

💬 SUPPORT

Need help with Joomla setup, billing, the Cloud Console, or commercial voices?

Contact us:
https://gspeech.io/contact-us

📋 REQUIREMENTS

No special server requirements. A free GSpeech account is required.

By using GSpeech 3.X, you agree to our Terms of Service:
https://gspeech.io/terms

📌 IMPORTANT

Please do not use JED reviews for bug reports, feature requests, or suggestions. Use the contact page so we can investigate and help:

https://gspeech.io/contact-us