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Text to speech is a popular technique used by many websites to provide their content in an interactive way. The generation of artificial human voice is known as Speech Synthesis. Even though it’s highly popular, there are very few speech synthesis services, especially when looking for those free of charge. Microsoft Translator is one of the services we can use to get a speech service with limited features.

In this tutorial, we are going to look at how we can use Microsoft Translator API to translate content and then make audio files using said content.You can learn the complete process using the following link at Sitepoint.

I have been a big fan of this amazing framework in the last few years and got numerous experiences working with plugins and themes to create better applications. So I shared my knowledge on popular websites like Sitepoint, Wptuts and 1stWebDesigner. In April 2013, I was invited by Packt Publishing to write a book on WordPress Web Development. It’s a dream for any WordPress enthusiast. After 7 months from that day we were able to publish the book in November. It’s been a enjoyed 7 months working with Packt Team members.

Being a developer, it was hard for me to learn the art of writing articles. I have been writing for almost 2 years now and few month back, I had the chance to write for popular blogs. Writing and publishing your own book is something that everyone will have in their dreams. My dream came true on 28th of April 2013, where I published my first book on impress.js.

Promoting blogs and driving traffic to a blog is one of the major concerns for any new blogger. Even though you might have quality content, your blog could go unnoticed if it is not promoted well. There are various techniques provided by expert bloggers to drive traffic to your web sites. Today we going to see how we can effectively use inline tweets with clicktotweet.com to increase the sharing of blog posts.