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Best Free WordPress Plugins for Tts

10 plugins compared · Updated August 2026 · Tts

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Choosing a WordPress plugin for tts comes down to a few things: whether it is still actively maintained, whether real users rate it well, and whether it does the specific job you need without dragging the rest of the site down.

We ranked 10 plugins using our WPScore, which weighs the user rating (adjusted for how many people actually rated it), how many sites run it, how recently it was updated, and which WordPress version it is tested against. 10 of them have enough public data to be scored; the rest are listed below the ranked block, clearly marked, rather than being given a number we cannot justify.

How this list is funded. Some links here earn us a commission if you buy. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not move anything up the list — the order comes from the WPScore, which is calculated from public ratings, install counts and update history. See the method.

At a glance

  1. 1. Text To Speech TTS Accessibility Best overall 84/100
  2. 2. GSpeech TTS 83/100
  3. 3. ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech 80/100
  4. 4. Text to Speech 77/100
  5. 5. BeyondWords 76/100
  6. 6. Reinvent WP Text to Speech 75/100
  7. 7. Real Voice 64/100
  8. 8. SiteNarrator Text-to-Speech Widget 59/100
  9. 9. Say It! 46/100
  10. 10. Spoken Word 46/100
1 Text To Speech TTS Accessibility
Best overall Free by Azizul Hasan

Text To Speech TTS Accessibility

Free text to speech with browser voices + premium AI voices from Google, OpenAI & ElevenLabs. Add an audio player to any WordPress post.

4.8★
from 91 ratings
4k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
84

WPScore

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2 GSpeech TTS
Free by Creative-Solutions

GSpeech TTS

Free Text to Speech plugin for WordPress with AI voices. Add audio players to posts, pages and WooCommerce. Cloud generation, no server load.

4.8★
from 176 ratings
3k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
83

WPScore

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3 ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech
Free by ResponsiveVoice

ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech

ResponsiveVoice the leading HTML5 text to speech synthesis solution, is now available for WordPress. Over 51 languages through 158 voices.

3.9★
from 34 ratings
7k+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
80

WPScore

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4 Text to Speech
Free by Norse Digital Group LLC

Text to Speech

Text to Speech (TTS) plugin for WordPress with ElevenLabs AI voices, WCAG accessibility, SEO audio schema, and 10,000 free credits.

5★
from 6 ratings
100+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.1
77

WPScore

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5 BeyondWords
Free by BeyondWords (formerly SpeechKit)

BeyondWords

Turn WordPress articles into audio as you publish, with tools for distribution, monetization, and analytics.

3.6★
from 27 ratings
800+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.0.4
76

WPScore

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6 Reinvent WP Text to Speech
Free by Reinvent WP

Reinvent WP Text to Speech

Read aloud your posts using natural, human-like voices. Highlights sentences and words as they are spoken. Start now 20,000 free characters / month!

4.7★
from 15 ratings
40+
active installs
Updated
Aug 2026
Tested to
WP 7.0.4
75

WPScore

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7 Real Voice
Free by DAEXT

Real Voice

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.

1★
from 1 ratings
300+
active installs
Updated
May 2025
Tested to
WP 6.8.8
64

WPScore

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9 Say It!
Free by dadipaq

Say It!

Text to speech plugin helping your website easily say something !

4.5★
from 10 ratings
100+
active installs
Updated
Nov 2021
Tested to
WP 5.8.15
46

WPScore

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10 Spoken Word
Free by Weston Ruter

Spoken Word

Add text-to-speech (TTS) to content, with playback controls, read-along highlighting, multi-lingual support, and settings for rate, pitch, and voice.

4.7★
from 7 ratings
100+
active installs
Updated
Jan 2018
Tested to
WP 4.9.31
46

WPScore

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