Can you imagine being able to accompany your articles with voice? In this tutorial of CourseWpress.com we tell you how to do it.
Why accompany your articles with a voice?
If at this moment you are asking yourself the following:
¿Si ya tengo un Blog with contents escrito por qué debería ponerle voz al contenido?
Maybe you need us to refresh you a few data.
Or more than that, maybe you need to know that not all visitors, even those who are super interested in your valuable content, have time to read.
Yes, as you read it: not everyone has time to read.
Pero tú que estás siempre un paso adelante no quieres perder al prospecto, al futuro client que está detrás de ese visitante que no tiene tiempo para leer tus artículos.
That is why you offer the content in audio form.
El poder del Podcasting
Ya en nuestra entrada Los mejores plugins de WordPress para el 2018 te hablábamos brevemente del formato podcast. And how could you implement it using tools like Seriously Simple Podcasting.
As it turns out, the advantages of offering your articles with a voice are many.
Advantages of offering your articles with voice or in audio format
- You offer your content in another Format what turns out easier to consume para aquellas persons what They do not have timeso they can listen to you while they do other things. It is even good for those people who, due to some physical limitation, cannot read.
- The voice (if it is the human voice) conveys a feeling of closeness. If you record yourself you will be able to better connect with your audience.
Una vez que se conocen la ventajas que supone el audio dentro de una strategy from blogging we already want to take action.
How to accompany my articles with voice?
There is a wide assortment of tools that will help you accompany your articles with voice.
Outside WordPress
Or in the traditional school of audio.
The dynamics behind the Podcasting or to share articles in audio format is the next:
You generate the content (you write your article)> you record it in audio> you upload it to your blog.
Clever.
For this you need:
- Microphone (although at the same time you can use the phone or the microphone of your laptop to capture the sound)
- software para capturar audio
- A computer
- Some program or platform where you can upload your audio file to share it on your blog.
Some bloggers become podcasters full time they even rent a recording studio for hours. Or already put, they have armed their own home studios.
But come on, it is not necessary so much apparatus and less in the beginning. Because you may want to boot using some alternative with a more focus minimalist.
And it exists within it WordPress and its ecosystem of Plugins. And we share it with you.
Tools to accompany your articles with voice in WordPress
If you don't have time to record your own voice, with all that this implies, you may well try some of these plugins.
These tools take care of transform he text of your articles in Audio. They never replace the fluidity, quality or warmth of human voice but you can take advantage of it.
Voice me
Voice me is a free alternative to add voice to your articles. Even though it is far from perfect (it works better with content in English than in Spanish). You can try it.
This time we will not use the WordPress plugin repository. For install Voice me we have to download it from the Web de sus developers, por medio de del siguiente link.
Once downloaded, we proceed to install it by uploading the .zip file.
We activate it.
And ready.
Voice me generates a button at the end of each article: Hear me or listen to me (depending on whether you have WordPress installed in Spanish or English).
Pressing this button will open a new window (from the website of Voice me) where your text will be read by a voice.
ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech
Otra alternativa con la que contamos a la hora de poner nuestros artículos con voz es el plugin ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech.
ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech is available in the WordPress plugin repository.
You install it, you activate it.
Now to put it into operation you just have to add the following shortcode:
[responsivevoice_button]
You paste the shortcode in the section of your post where you want the player to be shown and that's it.
Now your visitors will see a button like this:
That invites you to:
Listen to this / Listen to this
Amazon Polly for WordPres
Amazon Polly for WordPress Compared to the other plugins in the industry, it is a recently released plugin.
This one promises, like the others, to transform your texts into speech. Supports more than fifteen languages. That's not counting the different variations of English it offers (Australian, British, Indian, American). Spanish (European and American) and French (European and Canadian).
Para usarlo debes ser Username from AWS (Amazon Web Services).
To end
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