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Hearald for bloggers WordPress and any site

Your posts,
in a voice.

Open your post, press ⤓ Save MP3 in Hearald, and you get an MP3 of it in a voice that sounds like a person, made on your own computer. Put it on the page and your readers press play.

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$29 once, $15 for the first 100 buyers · no monthly plan · no character limit. Save comes with Hearald v0.4.8, on its way through Chrome Web Store review.

WHAT YOUR READERS SEE

yoursite.com/why-small-publishers-are-winning-with-audio

Why Small Publishers Are Winning With Audio

By you · 4 min read

The MP3 you saved, in an ordinary Audio block above the first paragraph.

Something quietly changed in online publishing over the last two years. The sites growing fastest are not the ones with the biggest newsrooms. They are the ones that meet readers wherever attention actually lives, and increasingly that means audio.

A reader who closes a tab is gone. A listener who presses play while making coffee will often finish the entire article…

Three steps per post

About a minute of your time, most of it waiting for the file.

1
Save the postOpen the published post in Chrome, start the Hearald reader, and press ⤓ Save MP3. It saves in the voice you're listening to (or pick another), and the whole post becomes one MP3.
2
Add it to the pageIn WordPress, add an Audio block under the title and upload the file. Most other site builders have an audio block too.
3
Readers press playThe file lives on your site, so it keeps playing no matter what happens to Hearald. Nothing for readers to install.

Why this way

Narration services charge by the month and meter every character. This doesn't.

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No monthly plan$29 once for the Study Kit. Save every post you write, for as long as you write them.
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No character meterA 4,000-word post costs the same as a 400-word one: nothing more.
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Made on your computerThe voice runs in Chrome on your machine. Your draft isn't uploaded anywhere to be read out.
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Natural voicesUS and UK, men and women. Hear a voice first in the reader, then save in the one you like.
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An ordinary MP3Titled and tagged, small enough to upload anywhere. Put it on your site, in a newsletter, or in a podcast feed.
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Any page, not just yoursThe same button saves an article to hear on a run, or a chapter for the drive in.
Used the Hearald Publisher plugin?

Its narration server is retired and its monthly plans are closed. Audio it already made is an MP3 in your own Media Library and stays there. For new posts, save them with Hearald and add an Audio block, as above.

Hearald Study Kit

Save any page as an MP3, plus everything else the Study Kit adds to the free reader: a notebook, a check of what you missed, focus blocks and a reading list.

$29 one-time — $15 for the first 100 buyers. No account, no subscription.

Get the Study Kit — $15

Start with the free reader.

Hear your post in Hearald first. Save it when you like the voice.

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