Best speech plugins for WordPress
The most popular speech plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Word Balloon leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of LIQUID SPEECH BALLOON (10K+) and Text To Speech TTS Accessibility (4K+). All 27 plugins tagged “speech” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 speech plugins
- 1.
Word BalloonThe most installed speech plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
LIQUID SPEECH BALLOON10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 2 days ago.
- 3.
Text To Speech TTS Accessibility4K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 93 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 4.
GSpeech TTS3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 178 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 5.
Voice Search600+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 10 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
WebsiteVoice300+ active installs. Rated 2.5 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
Real Voice200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 8.
ReachDeck Toolbar200+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
Easy Text-to-Speech20+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Guten-bubble10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
All 27 plugins tagged “speech”
Word Balloon
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,956by YAHMAN8 days ago
Support for Block editor(Gutenberg) & Classic Editor.You will easy to add speech balloon in your post.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 125/day
LIQUID SPEECH BALLOON
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,963by lqd2 days ago
Create a talk style (吹き出し) design in the block editor.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 78/day
Text To Speech TTS Accessibility
Up in the last 7 days:3#3,489by Azizul Hasan6 days ago
Free text to speech with browser voices + premium AI voices from Google, OpenAI & ElevenLabs. Add an audio player to any WordPress post.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(93)
- Downloads
- 239/day
GSpeech TTS
Up in the last 7 days:27#3,632by Creative-Solutions26 days ago
Free WordPress text to speech audio player for accessibility. Add audio to posts with OpenAI, Gemini and Google Cloud voices. No API keys.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(178)
- Downloads
- 82/day
Voice Search
Down in the last 7 days:35#8,266by Pascal Birchler2 months ago
Allows visitors to search the site using their voice.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.8(10)
- Downloads
- 70/day
WebsiteVoice
Up in the last 7 days:19#10,914by WebsiteVoice2 months ago
WebsiteVoice allows you to easily turn your WordPress articles into high-quality speech audio for your audience to listen while they’re busy multitask …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 2.5(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Real Voice
Up in the last 7 days:5#11,408by DAEXT1 year ago
Real Voice is a text-to-speech plugin for WordPress that supports the Web Speech API, Google Text-to-Speech AI, and Azure Text to speech.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
ReachDeck Toolbar
Up in the last 7 days:16#12,591by texthelp1 month ago
Websites made more accessible with easy speech, reading and translation tools.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Easy Text-to-Speech
Up in the last 7 days:161#25,427by handyplugins2 months ago
Easy Text-to-Speech is a powerful, user-friendly WordPress plugin designed to transform your textual content into high-quality synthesized speech.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Guten-bubble
Down in the last 7 days:12#31,322by Nia Tomonaka14 days ago
Displays a speech bubble like a chat conversation.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
AiVOOV
Up in the last 7 days:789#32,427by aivoov5 months ago
AiVOOV is a text to speech tool that lets bloggers and publishers convert all your articles into natural, human sounding speech in minutes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Text to Speech
#39,848by Olar Marius14 years ago
Javascript tool for transforming the text into speech.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Talkify Text To Speech
#39,965by talkify6 years ago
Talkify Text to speech is the best online Text to speech solution for blogs, articles and more. 400 voices in over 50 languages at your fingertips.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dictation (Speech Recognition)
Up in the last 7 days:2,033#41,626by gearinvent13 years ago
Dictation (Speech Recognition) is the most popular and easiest way to Write a POST with your voice, converting voice on text with any language.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Speech 2 Text
#42,544by muneeeb10 years ago
The most complete speech to text converter as a post. Convert audio files to text with upload option and make it as a post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Listenability
Down in the last 7 days:4,450#42,635by Weston Ruter11 years ago
Create a text-to-speech podcast of your posts, with the content from embedded URLs supplied by Readability. Open re-incarnation of SoundGecko.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
HTML5 Speech
Down in the last 7 days:3,921#44,872by bhelms15 years ago
Adds the new HTML5 speech attribute to all inputs
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wiloke AI Text To Speech
Up in the last 7 days:2,444#45,574by wiloke5 years ago
Reading post content out loud.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Voxpow
#47,641by voxpow5 years ago
A tool that adds speech recognition and voice commands to your website for free.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mosne Text to Speech Block
#55,001by Mosne / Paolo Tesei11 months ago
Read the content of a page using native Speech Synthesis and Interactivity API.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Speakable
Down in the last 7 days:4,900#61,785by themeshape5 months ago
Add a text-to-speech player to your posts and pages using the browser's built-in Web Speech API. Free, no API keys required.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sahajanand Post to Speech
Up in the last 7 days:4,788#66,544by Ronak J Vanpariya3 months ago
Convert posts into natural-sounding audio with a Gutenberg block — generate speech in the browser or via your own TTS API, no subscription needed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Webinista WreadIt
#71,622by webinista1 year ago
A text-to-speech plugin for WordPress that uses Amazon Polly.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AudioDots Player
Down in the last 7 days:21,603#71,727by audiodots4 years ago
AudioDots allows site owners to stream their content as audio to their audience on the go, over mobile and connected devices.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day