Enabling Third-Party Text-to-Speech Services
The Real Voice plugin can optionally use third-party services to perform the text-to-speech conversion.
It’s important to note that if you configure a third-party service from the plugin settings and perform text-to-speech conversions using the tools provided by the plugin the third-party service will charge you according to their terms.
When the third-party service “Amazon Polly” is enabled
The plugin will use the Amazon Polly third-party service to perform the text-to-speech conversion when these conditions are met:
- Amazon Polly (Cloud service) is selected with the Text-to-speech Converter option available in the Text-to-Speech -> General section of the plugin.
- A valid key is provided in the Access Key ID option available in the Text-to-Speech -> Amazon Polly section of the plugin options.
- A valid key is provided in the Secret Access Key option available in the Text-to-Speech -> Amazon Polly section of the plugin options.
The terms of service of Amazon Web Services are available in the link below:
https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
When the third-party service “Text-to-Speech AI” from Google Cloud is enabled
The plugin will use the Text-to-Speech AI from Google Cloud third-party service to perform the text-to-speech conversion when these conditions are met:
- Google Cloud Text-to-Speech AI is selected with the Text-to-speech Converter option available in the Text-to-Speech -> General section of the plugin.
- A valid key is provided in the Google Cloud Secret Access Key option available in the Text-to-Speech -> Google Cloud Text-to-Speech AI section of the plugin options.
The Terms of Service of the Google Cloud Platform are available in the link below:
https://cloud.google.com/terms
When the third-party service “Text to speech” from Microsoft Azure is enabled
The plugin will use the Text to speech from Microsoft Azure third-party service to perform the text-to-speech conversion when these conditions are met:
- Azure Text to Speech (Cloud service) is selected with the Text-to-speech Converter option available in the Text-to-Speech -> General section of the plugin.
- A valid key is provided in the Azure Speech Resource Key option available in the Text-to-Speech -> Azure Text-to-speech section of the plugin options.
Legal information for Text to speech by Microsoft Azure:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/
When the third-party service “ElevenLabs” is enabled
The plugin will use the ElevenLabs third-party service to perform the text-to-speech conversion when these conditions are met:
- ElevenLabs (Cloud service) is selected with the Text-to-speech Converter option available in the Text-to-Speech -> General section of the plugin.
- A valid key is provided in the API Key option available in the Text-to-Speech -> Azure Text-to-speech section of the plugin options.
The ElevenLabs terms of service are available in the link below:
When the plugin performs a text-to-speech conversion
In the contexts described below, the plugin performs a text-to-speech conversion. Note that with a third-party service enabled, this involves sending text/SSML to the third-party service API (on a remote server) to retrieve the audio data.
Manual text-to-speech conversions
Text-to-speech conversions are performed when you click the Generate file button in the Audio File post sidebar section. For Classic Editor users, the text-to-speech conversions are performed when you click the Generate file button in the Audio File meta box.
Accessing the plugin options
You can access the plugin options anytime from the Real Voice menu on your WordPress dashboard. Please note that this menu is available only for WordPress users who own the manage_options
capability.
Disclaimer
To the extent permissible under applicable laws, in no event shall DAEXT di A. D. (the company that developed this plugin) or its employees be liable to you for problems associated with using the third-party services supported by this plugin (E.g., Unexpected charges, violations of the third-party terms of services, etc.).
We recommend that you enable the third-party services included in this plugin only under the following conditions:
- Your site is secure, and only authorized users can access the WordPress administrative pages where the text-to-speech conversion is performed or configured.
- The third-party service is configured by a professional.
- This WordPress plugin is configured by a professional.
- The costs for the use of third-party services are constantly monitored by a professional.
- You can afford the costs associated with the use of a third-party service.
- We do not guarantee an implementation free of errors, and this WordPress plugin (both in terms of features and codebase) should be evaluated by a professional before being configured to use a third-party service.