Question 1

How to Create Audio

Accepted Answer

Here's how you can create Audio using the ${color}[#108a5c](Standard/ Premium) Voices:

| Before you begin, make sure you have already Signed-in to your account. **

On the PlayHT website, click on ${color}[#108a5c](Go to Studio) button.

Go to Studio button

On your ${color}#108a5c, click on the ${color}[#108a5c](Create New File) button, select ${color}#108a5c and click on ${color}[#108a5c](Open Standard Studio)

On the ${color}[#108a5c](Standard Studio), click on the ${color}[#108a5c](Create Audio) button.

Type in the ${color}#108a5c, and your ${color}#108a5c on the ${color}[#108a5c](Play Editor).

Click on ${color}#108a5c, pick a ${color}#108a5c from the list, select a ${color}#108a5c and ${color}#108a5c.

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Question 2

How to add audio to your Wordpress blog post

Accepted Answer

How to add audio to your WordPress blog post

Q: How to customize your Audio Players

<h1 id="howtocustomizeyouraudioplayers">How to customize your Audio Players</h1> <p>There are <strong>3 types of Audio Player widgets</strong> that you can configure to embed in your blog posts.</p> <ol> <li>Embedded Audio Player (also known as Article Player)</li> <li>Listen button</li> <li>Floating button</li> </ol> <h3 id="1embeddedaudioplayeralsoknownasarticleplayer">1. Embedded Audio Player (also known as Article Player)</h3> <p>This sits within your post content (usually at the beginning) to give your audience an option to listen (and read along) the blog post. This is how it looks - </p> <p><img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/904f694116fab000/screen-shot-2020-04-05-at-9582_18eptoy.png" alt="" /></p> <p>You can enable/disable and customize it within the __<strong>Article Player tab</strong> from the Play.ht Wordpress dashboard __</p> <p><img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/904f694116fab000/screen-shot-2020-04-05-at-9593_12pyrgt.png" alt="" /></p> <h3 id="2listenbuttonandfloatingbutton">2. Listen button and Floating button</h3> <p>Both these buttons are added under <strong><strong>Page Player tab</strong> in the Play.ht Wordpress dashboard</strong></p> <p><img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/904f694116fab000/screen-shot-2020-04-05-at-1003_1eu3vab.png" alt="" /></p> <p>|| Make sure to click the 'Save changes' button at the bottom after customizing your players!</p>

|| This requires Play.ht WordPress plugin to be installed on your blog. If you haven't installed the plugin yet, follow this tutorial - Installing Play.ht Wordpress plugin

The Play.ht WordPress plugin adds certain functionality to your admin that makes it easy to convert your posts, pages or courses into audio and embed that audio. Here are the steps for converting your first blog post to audio:

From your Posts page, select the post that you'd like to convert to audio and click on the Add Audio button.

Add Audio

You'll now see an editor with your post contents. You can add or remove text to reflect in the audio. You can change the voice, listen to sentences, fix any pronunciations in this editor before creating the final audio which consumes a credits. There the purpose of this editor is to help you edit and finalize the audio before creating it.

Once you are ready with the edits to audio, click the Convert button.

|| Converting a blog post to audio consumes a credit

You will now have the audio embedded in your blog post!

Question 3

Add Custom Pronunciations to your Audio

Accepted Answer

Here's how you can add Custom Pronunciations to your Text to Speech Conversions.

${youtube}Add Custom Pronunciations - Video Tutorial

Head over to your ${color}[#108a5c](Play Dashboard), and click on ${color}[#108a5c](Create Audio) to open our ${color}#108a5c.

Create Audio

Add whatever text you wish to convert, and select the word whose pronunciation you wish to change by clicking and dragging the mouse cursor over it.

Selecting text

From the select toolbar, click on ${color}#108a5c.

Pronunciation

Now enter your custom pronunciation in the box provided, and hit Apply.

Custom Pronunciation

| You can also try using our Phonemes feature by adding a Phonetic pronunciation to your words. Just select the checkbox besides Phonemes, and the rest remains the same.

| Selecting the checkbox besides "Save to Pronunciation Library" will save your pronunciation for future use.

Question 4

How to install the Play.ht Wordpress plugin

Accepted Answer

How to install the Play.ht Wordpress plugin on your blog

Installing the Play.ht Wordpress plugin is just like installing any other Wordpress plugin. Simply download the plugin (it gets downloaded as .zip file), go to your blog admin and upload it there. Here are the steps in detail:

Download the plugin from https://wordpress.org/plugins/play-ht/

Go to your blog admin and click on Add new button from the Plugins page

Choose the upload plugin option

Select the Play.ht plugin .zip file that was just downloaded and click the Install button

Once the plugin is installed, click on the Activate Plugin button

Question 5

How to customize your Audio Players

Accepted Answer

How to customize your Audio Players

There are 3 types of Audio Player widgets that you can configure to embed in your blog posts.

Embedded Audio Player (also known as Article Player)
Listen button
Floating button

1. Embedded Audio Player (also known as Article Player)

This sits within your post content (usually at the beginning) to give your audience an option to listen (and read along) the blog post. This is how it looks -

You can enable/disable and customize it within the __Article Player tab from the Play.ht Wordpress dashboard __

2. Listen button and Floating button

Both these buttons are added under Page Player tab in the Play.ht Wordpress dashboard

|| Make sure to click the 'Save changes' button at the bottom after customizing your players!

Question 6

Add Custom Pause Durations to your Audio

Accepted Answer

Adding Custom Pauses to your Audio

|| A newly released feature of our March '21 Update, allows you to increase or decrease the duration of Pauses, where necessary.

${youtube}Add Natural Pauses | Set Custom Pause Durations - Video Tutorial

Here's how you do it:

Head over to your ${color}[#108a5c](Play Editor), and place your cursor where you want the pause to be, then click the ${color}[#108a5c](Add Pause button).

Add Pause

You can either select a default Pause Duration, or click on the Custom Duration box.

Custom Pause

If you click on the Custom Duration box, a modal should appear asking you to enter a value of the pause duration. Please enter a value less than or equal to 5.

Custom duration

| You can stack pause durations next to each other to increase the number more than 5.

Once done, you should see a pause appear right where you wanted it to be.

Pause appears

| If you wish to change the pauses of Punctuations, and time between each paragraphs or lines, please click on the ${color}[#108a5c](Pause Settings) Menu, on the Menu Bar, or visit **${c

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