We are glad to present a new great voice input plugin for your WordPress site. Listener designed for the voice input of text or text area fields. The plugin is based on Microsoft Azure – one of the most effective cognitive speech recognition services. The voice input is applied for different forms present on your site. It can be a search field, post comment, product review, or questionnaire. Speed and convenience for your visitors are the main advantages of using the voice input method. Listener WordPress is a great addition to your sites’ compliance with COPPA, FERPA, HIPAA, GDPR, and of course, ADA standards and regulations.

The Listener plugin requires using the API Key of the speech service. You can get it free together with the 5 audio hours free per month. You may also be provided with more resources for specific prices. Once you have activated the plugin and enter your own Key, the product ready to use. An alternative data entry method via voice will be added to all text input fields that greatly improves the accessibility and interaction with your site.

More than 100 accents across 35+ languages

Multiple Languages Speech Recognition

Customizable Button Positions

Completely Cross-Browser Support

Auto-stop recording in silence

Fully Compatible with WordPress 5+

Powered by Microsoft Azure Speech-to-Text

Minified and optimized native JS without jQuery

Modern User Interface

Suitable for all kind of Layout and Template

Works Great with All Popular Themes

A lot of useful functions and settings

Supports 140+ languages for voice input and 90 languages for automatic voice recognition.

The Speech Detection feature allows you to work correctly on a multilingual site or with a multinational audience. You can set only one primary language in the plugin settings but enabling the feature, your visitors can use voice input in another language (from the list of supported) and it will be automatically detected and recognized in the appropriate language.

The plugin provides different speech modes. Recognize once mode provides for shot input data when the silence recognizes as the end of the record which is suitable for text fields. The Continuous mode allows recognizing long text.

More than 10 positions of the Voice Button which can move to another position automatically adapting to certain conditions. For example, if you set the position to the top, but for the certain form field, there is not enough space to display the button, it will be displayed in a more appropriate place.

Phrase Lists are used to identify known phrases in audio data, like a person’s name or a specific location. Single words or complete phrases can be added to a Phrase List.

Flexible design features allow you to customize the appearance of the button according to your site style or wishes.

Features of Speech Recognizing Plugin

Powered by Microsoft Azure
Automatically Languages Recognizing
Auto-stop recording in a silence
140+ Languages Includes for voice input/90+ Languages for automatic voice recognition.
Appearance animation of the button
Flexible style settings of button
Tested and compatible with Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder and Visual Composer
Works well with all popular WordPress Themes
Ten Positions for Placing the Voice Button
Perfect for RTL direction
Native Valid JavaScript, without jQuery
Beautiful modern User Interface
Tested and Compatible up to WordPress 6+
Lightweight and Fast
Compatible with all Modern Browsers
Includes exclusive access to WaveNet technology
Easy to use and customize
Installation Guide
Detailed Users Manual
Huge Customization Capabilities
Six months Included Support for CodeCanyon buyers

Voice input plugin tested and compatible with All Major WP Plugins: Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, W3 Total Cache, NextGen Gallery, Slider Revolution, WooCommerce, etc. It also works perfectly and improves the user experience with popular Website Page Builders, like Elementor, Visual Composer, Gutenberg, Beaver Builder, Divi, Themify Builder, WP Bakery Page Builder, Layers WP, and many others. The plugin works perfectly with all significant WordPress frameworks: Genesis, Divi, Themify, Warp 7, Ultimatum, Beans, Unyson, Gantry, and others.

Learn a little more about what the plugin can do and how to configure it from the Online Documentation.

Changelog

1.1.2 – 24 February 2026
Fixed plugin security issues

1.1.1 – 13 June 2023
Fixed settings UI issue on General Tab

1.1.0 – 1 March 2022
Added new speech to text languages: Afrikaans (South Africa), Amharic (Ethiopia), Azerbaijani (Latin, Azerbaijan), Bengali (India), Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Welsh (United Kingdom), German (Switzerland), Basque, Persian (Iran), French (Belgium), Galician, Armenian (Armenia), Icelandic (Iceland), Italian (Switzerland), Javanese (Latin, Indonesia), Georgian (Georgia), Kazakh (Kazakhstan), Khmer (Cambodia), Kannada (India), Lao (Laos), Macedonian (North Macedonia), Malayalam (India), Mongolian (Mongolia), Burmese (Myanmar), Nepali (Nepal), Dutch (Belgium), Pashto (Afghanistan), Sinhala (Sri Lanka), Somali (Somalia), Albanian (Albania), Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia), Swahili (Kenya), Swahili (Tanzania), Ukrainian (Ukraine), Uzbek (Latin, Uzbekistan), Chinese (Wu, Simplified), Chinese (Cantonese, Simplified), Chinese (Southwestern Mandarin, Simplified), Zulu (South Africa)
Added automatic languages recognition for Bulgarian (Bulgaria), Croatian (Croatia), Czech (Czech Republic), Estonian (Estonia), Hebrew (Israel), Hungarian (Hungary), Indonesian (Indonesia), Irish (Ireland), Latvian (Latvia), Lithuanian (Lithuania), Maltese (Malta), Slovak (Slovakia), Slovenian (Slovenia), Turkish (Turkey), Ukrainian (Ukraine), Vietnamese (Vietnam)
Extended automatic languages recognition for Arabic, English, Indian, Spanish locales
Added automatic translation files for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian
Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech SDK updated to 1.25.1

1.0.6 – 5 November 2021
Added checking for new fields after page loading

1.0.5 – 4 August 2021
Added 17 new languages for auto recognition
Fixed language detection

1.0.4 – 27 July 2021
Added 60 new languages and dialects

1.0.3 – 12 May 2021
Fixed fatal error on plugin activation

1.0.2 – 8 May 2021
Added option for excluding some symbols after speech recognition

1.0.1 – 2 October 2020
Fixed multiple front-end issues

1.0.0 – 29 September 2020
Initial release

Listener WordPress Plugin