Hearald Publisher For WordPress

Your articles,
in a voice.

Every post you publish ships with a Listen button — narrated in a voice that sounds like a person, generated the moment you hit publish. You do nothing.

A WordPress plugin from the makers of Hearald.

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Free for 5 articles a month. No card, no account to create.

REAL AUDIO — PRESS PLAY

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

Why Small Publishers Are Winning With Audio

By you · 4 min read

Listen · 1 min
0:00 / 0:27

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…

That's not a recording of a person. It's this article, narrated on publish.

Three steps, then never again

Set it up once. Every article after that is automatic.

1
Install the pluginGet a key (free or paid), download the plugin from your receipt, upload it in WordPress, paste the key, and switch on auto-generate.
2
Publish as normalWrite the way you always do. The moment a post goes live, the audio starts generating.
3
Readers press playA clean player appears above the article. No apps, no accounts, nothing for them to install.

The details that make it usable

The difference between a demo and something you leave running for a year.

🔄
Knows a real edit from a typo fixAudio is matched to your words, not your save button. Fix a shortcode and nothing happens; rewrite a paragraph and it flags the audio for an update.
🎙️
Seven voices, per articleUS and UK, male and female. Set a default for the site and override it on any single post.
📊
Plays, completions, minutes heardSee which articles people actually finish listening to. Aggregate counts only — your readers are never tracked.
🗂️
One dashboard for the archiveEvery post with audio, its status, length and voice, filterable — plus an Audio column right on your Posts screen.
🎧
A player that behavesSeek, keyboard controls, playback speed, dark mode. It stays quiet when audio is unavailable instead of breaking.
⚙️
Nothing to run yourselfNo models on your server, no cron you have to babysit, no plugin slowing pages that have no player.
Your audio and your readers stay yours.

Every narration is an MP3 saved in your own Media Library and served by your site — it keeps playing even if you cancel. The player has no reader accounts, no cookies, no tracking scripts, and sends no IP addresses anywhere. Listen analytics are opt-in and count three things per article: plays, completions, minutes heard. Nothing that identifies a person, ever.

Pricing

Every plan gets every feature. Plans differ only in how many articles are narrated each month.

Free

$0
  • 5 articles a month
  • All seven voices, player and dashboard
  • No card needed
Get a free key
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Publisher

$19 / month
  • 50 articles a month
  • Everything in Free
  • Cancel anytime — your audio stays
Choose Publisher

Publisher Pro

$50 / month
  • 500 articles a month
  • For daily publishers and narrating the archive
  • Everything in Publisher
Choose Publisher Pro

Prices in USD. Checkout, billing and cancellation are handled by Gumroad; the license key arrives with your receipt. Regenerating audio that already matches an article is free.

Turn your archive into something people listen to.

Start free — 5 articles a month, no card.

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