Speechable
AI Text-to-Speech for WordPress Websites
Details
- External ID
- 46475535
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Jan. 3, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN / YCI just shipped Speechable — a free, open-source AI text-to-speech solution for WordPress that runs entirely in the browser with no API keys, no paid services, and no server infrastructure.I wrote a full write-up here: https://tanishmittal.com/speechable-ai-text-to-speech-for-wo...What it doesAdds a native audio player to WordPress postsUses browser-based neural TTSSupports 12+ languagesOffers multiple voice presets & effectsLets visitors download audioHighlights words in sync with narrationWhy I built itMost TTS plugins depend on expensive APIs, external servers, and data sharing. I wanted:Privacy-first experiencesNo recurring costsHigh-quality voice outputEasy install for any WordPress siteTry itRepo & docs: https://github.com/tansihmittal/speechableWould love feedback — especially on:UX pain pointsPerformance in real blogsEdge cases you think it should supportIf you try it or build something cool with it, shoutout on X: @glowdoperaThanks!
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice dictation and control tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
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- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- text-to-speech for wordpress websites
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard WordPress plugin wrapping client-side browser Web Speech API or in-browser ONNX/Wasm TTS models (like Transformers.js) with no backend infrastructure.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 217 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #209 of 218 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 58 days after the earliest competitor.
- Free Text to Speech Online · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Free Text-to-Speech Tool · hn · 2026-01-31 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- TTSForge · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- SpeechOS · hn · 2026-01-21 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- VoiceFlow AI · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Voxtral TTS by Mistral AI · ph · 2026-03-27 · 156 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Ai Text To Speech · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- WordPress for Voice Agents · hn · 2026-03-03 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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