Add ‘Text to Speech/Read it loud’ option to your Blogger blog

Posted on August 22, 2015 by 
Add ‘Text to Speech/Read it loud’ option to your Blogger blog
Sometimes site visitors/readers don’t like to read long full articles or they don’t have enough time to read long articles that case not to losing those visitors you can add ‘Text to Speech’ option on your Blogger site. That case you will have better visitor engagement, conversation rate, bounce rate etc. In web there a lot of ‘Text to Speech’ option you can find but most of them are not completely functional. But this service I use it’s cool and offer lots of function; this service will give you complete ‘Text to Speech’ solution with an advance way. Let’s see how to add ‘Text to Speech/Read it loud’ option to your Blogger blog, how to configure and run.

Add ‘Text to Speech/Read it loud’ option to your Blogger


The service we are going to use for adding ‘Text to Speech/Read it loud’ option name is ResponsiveVoice

This service features:
  • HTML5-based Text-To-Speech library designed to add voice features to web sites and apps across all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.
  • Supports 51 languages through 168 voices, no dependencies and lightweight
  • This is the easiest way to use the spoken word in your app or website.
  • Latest HTML5 technology what allows the Speech API for Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis or more commonly known as Text To Speech (TTS) is now available in most modern browsers, unlike other ‘Text to Speech’ options (Text To Speech engines to render MP3 audio files from text and then download them from servers) HTML5 technology doesn’t follow that, so it super instant and super powerful.
  • This service is free forever with (Unlimited Words, All Voices, Voice-Enable your site with one line of code, Dashboard for Voice Features, Voice Message Editor, HTML5 Text to Speech , Multilanguage Voices , Page Welcome Message, Select Text to Speak It , Speaking Menus and Links etc)

How to add:
You can add the ‘Text to Speech’ option in two ways:

1. Put text into a code and embed it to a post, ‘Play’ button to play speech 
  • Login to Blogger; select your blog;
  • Go to ‘Template’ option; select ‘Edit HTML’
  • Search for </head> using (Ctrl+F or Cmd+F) into code snippet
  • Copy and paste this code before </head>, and Save template

<script src="http://code.responsivevoice.org/responsivevoice.js"></script>
  • Now select a new post/old post from post editor switch to HTML option;
  • Copy and paste this line and ‘your text here’ replace with your text.

<input onclick="responsiveVoice.speak(' your text here ');" type="button" value="Play" />
  • Switch back to ‘Compose’ part and hit ‘Play’ button to see it working.

2. Turning all text elements to speech; upon selecting the text and hovering links:
  • From Dashboard, you may set up welcome massage
  • Tic ‘Select text to speak’ and ‘Spoken page links’
  • Select Voice style, put email and website link
  • Hit create page code
  • Copy the given code from next page,
  • Now on other tab, login to your Blogger, select your blog
  • Got to ‘Template’ option, select ‘Edit HTML’
  • Search for </head> using (Ctrl+F or Cmd+F) into code snippet
  • And paste the copied code before </head>, and Save template
Done, you may tell everybody you have ‘text to speech’ system; and that can be turn on by selecting text; so
  • Go to ‘Layout’ tab, select ‘add a gadget’ from sidebar
  • Select ‘Text’ gadget and in content put announcement (like this site offer’s text to speech option, you can hear article by selecting text’) Save gadget.
After setup process; Check your blog out to see how it working.

This text to speech service is free to use for personal purpose and site; but if you looking for more customizable option and professional solution you may switch their premium version. Adding text to speech service to site is optional option but it enhance visitor engagement to you site, not everybody like to read that case they will find an awesome alternative, So what your thought about this tutorial don’t forget to mention by comment. Chill.....