LearnDash is an amazing platform for creating and selling courses online. Most people who create courses try different things to make the content easy to learn and remember like creating explainer videos, illustrations, recording audio, etc.

That’s because everyone learns differently, some learn by reading, some by watching videos and some are auditory learners, while some use a combination of one or more techniques. Research shows people who apply more than one method of learning, learn better and remember longer.

Audio — a powerful medium for learning

Audio can be a powerful medium for learning in today’s time. With almost everyone walking around with earphones plugged in, audio provides an excellent opportunity to offer your course content to users.

It’s the perfect medium your students can make use of while being passively occupied in activities like commuting, driving, exercising, doing laundry, etc.

But creating audio might not be easy. It consumes a lot of time and effort and requires skill and recording equipment, and factors like your accent and fluency of the language might come into play when you sit down to record.

Text to Speech technology — a viable solution for creating audio

Historically, Text to Speech technology has sounded extremely robotic and monotonous. That’s because the process of generating audio was concatenative where sounds of different words would be stitched together to form a sentence.

It’s only since the last couple of years, with the application of Machine Learning, that the quality of Text to Speech voices has improved so drastically that they are now almost indistinguishable from a human voice.

Text to Speech voices now mimic the exact intonation, expressions and emotions of a real voice— which makes them a perfect choice for creating audio content that not only conveys the information but also makes the listening experience quite pleasant.

You can listen to some of these voices here — Voice Samples

Also, Text to Speech is the only solution for creating audio content at an affordable cost and at scale. The modern voices are realistic enough to match the quality of a voice actor and be affordable and scalable at the same time.

How to create an audio version of a lesson or a topic in LearnDash

The process of creating audio is fairly simple, and you can easily include it in your process of creating courses.

Step 1 — Install Play.ht Wordpress Plugin

The first thing you will need is our plugin. It uses the most realistic and natural Text to Speech voices and helps you convert any written content including articles and blog posts to audio.

Play.ht Wordpress Plugin

Download and install it from here — Play.ht Wordpress Plugin

Step 2 — Select the lesson or the topic to convert to audio

Once you have activated the plugin and signed up on Play.ht, you can now start creating audio.

Click on the lesson or topic you want to convert, select a voice and click the “Convert to Audio” button, as shown in the image below 👇