Listenability
Create a text-to-speech podcast of your posts, with the content from embedded URLs supplied by Readability. Open re-incarnation of SoundGecko.
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·10 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Listenability is a WordPress tts plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Text To Speech TTS Accessibility.
5/51 reviews
10active installs
2.1K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
This plugin allows you to create text-to-speech podcasts of your posts, with the content from embedded URLs supplied by Readability’s Parser API. It aims to be a open self-hosted re-incarnation of defunct SoundGecko service.
When a Readability Parser API key is supplied, a post which gets saved with a bare URL as its content will have this content prepended with the content that Readability extracts from the page at that URL. This allows you to import an article’s full contents into your podcast just by saving a post with a URL in its content (e.g. by sharing an article URL to your blog via Jetpack’s post by email).
In addition to supplying a URL for the content you want in the podcast, you can also just add the content directly to the post itself without any correspondi…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.3+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
0.1.1
- Improve handling of Readability API errors by sending post back to draft.
- Remove audio elements from TTS text.
Contributors
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