Generating Article Audio in WordPress with Kokoro: Admin-Side Creation, Stored Playback

A browser-based text-to-speech demo typically stops once audio plays, but a WordPress article needs the recording saved and attached to the post. The proposed workflow generates speech in the site owner's admin browser with Kokoro, encodes it into a file, and uploads it to the Media Library so readers can play it without loading the model. The author advises deciding what text gets read, since tables and code may not work well when spoken, and recommends checking the prepared text and listening to samples. Recording runs on the owner's machine while the tab stays open, so it is not an overnight server task, and each recording should be tied to a hash of the spoken text so edits flag it as outdated. Finally, the author notes that local generation avoids sending text to a TTS provider, though the WordPress host still stores and serves the audio.