Talking Head

Talking Head 🗣️ AI-generated podcast-style audio from turn-based conversations in WordPress. No point watching without audio Description Talking Head lets you write multi-speaker conversations in the WordPress block editor, then generate podcast-quality audio using AI text-to-speech. Each speaker ("head") gets their own voice, and the plugin stitches the segments together into a single audio file with configurable silence gaps — or serves segments individually using virtual stitching for faster publishing. Features - Episode editor — Gutenberg blocks for writing turn-based conversations - Speaker profiles — Custom post type for managing voices and personas - OpenAI TTS — Generate speech using OpenAI's text-to-speech API (alloy, echo, fable, onyx, nova, shimmer) - Azure OpenAI TTS — Alternative provider using Azure-hosted OpenAI deployments - WordPress AI (Core) — On WordPress 7.0+, use the built-in AI Client for TTS via Settings → Connectors (no API key required) - Background processing — Audio generation runs via Action Scheduler, with progress tracking - Audio stitching — FFmpeg-based concatenation with silence gaps and loudness normalization, or pure PHP fallback - Vir