The talkinGBlogs-Plugin is still running smoothly on WordPress 3.9.1 without any modifications!

It’s been a long time since talkinGBlogs has been updated. Now we are back to business. 🙂
For almost one year, the SWIFT TTS engine did not work on the webspace we are using. Today, our hosting provider has solved the problem, great job!

TalkinGBlogs uses the newest WordPress version now, and the talkingblogs plugin itself is doing its job as usual.

Finally, I have updated the WordPress version used on talkinGBlogs to the newest WordPress release. The talkinGBlogs plugin still works perfectly.

It was quiet on talkinGBlogs for a while. That’s because I had a couple of other things to do … But now, there’s great news: talkinGBlogs has been updated – on the one hand, it’s ready for the newest WordPress version 2.5.1, and on the other hand, it is using the brandnew major version 5.0.0 of Cepstral’s voices.

The plugin itself did not have to be changed for the application version changes at all. It worked with the new versions “out-of-the-box”.

Enjoy the improved quality of Cepstral’s voices and the security improvements implemented in WordPress 2.5!

I decided to put the contents on this website together with the talkinGBlogs plugin under a Creative Commons License.

This step changes the license from “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved”.

The quality of the talkinGBlogs plugin itself will of course be as high as before!

Do you want to express emotions in your blog entries?! Then “Shouty” or “Whispery” might be your voices.

Cepstral offers so called “character voices”, one of them is “Shouty”, which you can hear when you click onto the loudspeaker next to the heading of this blog entry.

Or you might want to whisper some soft words in your blog entries – that’s what you experience right now.

The big advantage: The character voices cost only $6.99! Blogging with an emotional voice becomes cheaper than ever!

Go and buy “Shouty” or “Whispery” for your blog here!

It’s angry, it’s funny, it’s soft, it’s loud – it’s a MUST HAVE!

There is a new WordPress version 2.2 (codename: Getz) out there. After switching off all the used plugins, upgrading to the new version, updating the database and switching on the plugins again, the talkinGBlogs-plugin works perfectly … No need for any code changes …

This means that you can enjoy listening to your blog entries as usual, even with the newest and most secure WordPress ever.

Today, I upgraded to version 4.2.0 of Cepstral’s voice “David”, which is used for synthesizing this weblog.

When listening to the blog entries now, some minor qualitiy improvements can be noticed, so the upgrade was worth spending some time on.

Enjoy the “new” David!

Cepstral has released a new version of all of their current voices.

Version 4.2.0 contains improvements in voice quality and design as well as some bugfixes. Go and download them here!

Today, I updated the talkinGBlogs plugin to version 1.2! You can download it here.

The new version now supports all 3 default PERMALINK structures. Custom PERMALINKS are currently not supported because of audio file generation reasons.

Enjoy the new version of the plugin!