How to use InkToAudio

Add audio to your Ghost posts

Ghost is friendly to embeds: its HTML card runs custom scripts and iframes on the published page, and Code Injection lets you add a player across the whole site. It also has native memberships, so you can put audio behind your paywall. This guide covers per-post embeds, site-wide Auto Render, the email caveat, and members-only placement.

1. Get your post text into InkToAudio

• Paste it. Open Content → Create content in InkToAudio and paste the post body.
• Forward it by email. Copy your private forwarding address from the Forwards page and email the post to it. See the email forwarding guide.
• Let Auto Render pull it straight off the published page (covered below).

2. Transform the text for spoken delivery

In Content → Edit, run a one-click transformation so the audio doesn’t sound like a page being read aloud:

• Optimize for spoken content — tightens rhythm and removes written-only phrasing.
• Podcast style — host cadence and warmth.
• Newscast style — punchier, broadcast delivery.

Turn on Multispeaker for a two-host feel, and edit the script by hand wherever you want a specific read.

3. Pick a voice and render

Choose a voice profile (or several for multispeaker) and a delivery style — podcaster, newscaster, radio DJ, storyteller, conversational, or energetic. Click Save Changes & Render Audio.

4. Add the player to a single post (HTML card)

Click Share on the rendered post in InkToAudio and open the Script tab (website player) or Iframe tab. In the Ghost editor:

1. Place your cursor on a new line where you want the player, click the + button, and choose HTML (or type /html).
2. Paste the Script embed (full player, small player, or play/pause button) into the HTML card. The card runs the script on the published page.
3. Click out of the card to see it render, then update the post.

The email caveat

Ghost sends a newsletter email version of each post, and email clients can’t render HTML-card players. The inline player shows up on the web version of the post only. For the emailed version, add a plain text link or button using the Direct link from the Share dialog — for example a line near the top: “Prefer to listen? Tap here.” Web readers get the player, email readers get the link, and both count in Analytics.

Keeping audio behind your membership paywall

Ghost lets you reserve part of a post for paid members using the public preview divider. Anything below the divider is members-only.

1. In the editor, add the Public preview divider where the free portion should end.
2. Place your HTML card with the player below the divider. Only logged-in paid members will see and play it.

You can also set the entire post to Members only or Paid members only in the post settings — the player rides along with the gated post.

5. Add audio to every post automatically (Auto Render)

Auto Render adds a player to your current and future posts from a single snippet. Create the pipeline in InkToAudio (voice, multispeaker, transformation, allowed domains), copy the generated snippet, and add it to Ghost’s Code Injection. Full setup is in the Auto Render guide.

1. In Ghost admin, open Settings → Code injection.
2. Paste the Auto Render snippet into Site Footer (use the floating player mode for a footer install), then save. It loads on every page.
3. Prefer the snippet on posts only? Use per-post Code injection in an individual post’s settings instead of the site-wide footer.