Voice messages form for WordPress – Contacter

Contacter is a WordPress Plugin designed for voice feedback form for any websites. The plugin allows you to go beyond the usual text messages and contact forms and get closer to your users. The plugin adds a voice recording button to any convenient place on the site. This can be useful for reviews, order comments, or any questions.

In addition to the voice contact form, the plugin has a simple and powerful editor for creating contact forms. To each form of voice feedback, you can attach a regular contact form containing fields such as e-mail and phone number or messenger.

Any of the voice records can be converted to text directly in the WordPress admin area. Google Speech-to-Text enables to convert audio to text by applying powerful neural network models in an easy-to-use API. The API recognizes more than 120 dialects across 65+ languages and variants to support your global user base. It can process real-time streaming or prerecorded audio, using Google’s machine learning technology.

The voice feedback is convenient for all devices, it creates a voice message quickly instead of wasting time typing long text, especially from a mobile. At the same time, the Contacter can also create regular text fields in the form if any additional information is required. One more important advantage of the plugin is the ability to convert audio to text using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API Key, which helps to get user messages in a form convenient for you. The voice feedback suitable for Blog, Portfolio, Corporate Website, eCommerce Project, Creative Agency, Real Estate Listing, a Restaurant, Retail Company and will help to create a more user-friendly site.

This product has been tested and is fully compatible with all popular WordPress editors. Incredibly flexible plugin settings allow you to enable/disable it on different pages; for different user groups; on different devices(mobile, tablet, desktop).

A lot of useful functions and settings

Set maximum recording duration via general plugin settings. It can be from 1 to 300 seconds. After the specified time, the recording will stop automatically.

Google API Speech-to-Text can support your global user base, recognizing 120+ languages and variants. You can also filter inappropriate content in text results for all languages.

Creating contact forms for sending voice messages with additional fields of different types. You can create different forms and add them to specific pages using a shortcode.

Viewing and managing received messages directly from the WordPress admin panel. When you receive new messages, the status indicator will be displayed in the plugin and you can see the new post and change its status, download a recording or convert the speech to text.

Flexible style settings allow you to create a design of the record button and modal popup in accordance with your requirements. The button size, background color, text color and size, paddings, animation, and others can be adjusted. Besides, you can add custom CSS styles in a special plugin settings tab.

Contacter is fully cross-browser. It does not matter which browser users view your site. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Edge, or even the outdated versions of Internet Explorer – in all browsers, visitors will get an incredible experience.

Features of Voice Feedback Plugin

• Includes Record button Shortcode to Place Anywhere on the Website
• Seven Positions for Floating record button
• Audio to Text Conversion Using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API
• Speech recognition across over 65+ languages
• The contact form may contain any additional fields of different types.
• New messages indicator and post-management via the WordPress admin panel
• A fully customizable record button
• Record voice or download audio file
• Use as a regular contact form
• Tested and compatible with Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder and Visual Composer
• Works well with all popular WordPress Themes
• Gutenberg Ready
• Perfect for RTL direction
• Native Valid JavaScript, without jQuery
• Beautiful modern User Interface
• Tested and compatible up to WordPress 5+
• Lightweight and Fast
• Compatible with all Modern Browsers
• Easy to use and customize
• Installation Guide and Detailed User Manual
• Huge Customization Capabilities
• Six months Included Support for CodeCanyon buyers

Contacter Plugin tested and compatible with All Major WP Plugins: Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, W3 Total Cache, NextGen Gallery, Slider Revolution, WooCommerce, etc. It also works perfectly and improves the user experience with popular Website Page Builders, like Elementor, Visual Composer, Gutenberg, Beaver Builder, Divi, Themify Builder, WP Bakery Page Builder, Layers WP, and many others. The plugin works perfectly with all significant WordPress frameworks: Genesis, Divi, Themify, Warp 7, Ultimatum, Beans, Unyson, Gantry, and others.

Changelog

1.7.8 – 29 May 2024
Fixed the problem of validation non-required file fields

1.7.7 – 16 November 2023
Fixed checkboxes and radiobuttons in contact form
Improved compatibility with PHP 8
Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.4

1.7.6 – 18 August 2023
Fixed file uploading form issue

1.7.5 – 4 July 2023
Fixed AudioContext sample rate error in FireFox

1.7.4 – 12 June 2023
Fixed non-clickable links in "Thank you" message

1.7.3 – 6 June 2023
Fixed custom CSS issue
Fixed case with empty "Start a new message" button text

1.7.2 – 1 June 2023
Fixed audio download link in front-end

1.7.1 – 24 May 2023
Fixed problems with the contact form when the company is inside the Elementor popup

1.7.0 – 28 April 2023
Added additional fields to notification merge tags
Added option to linking notification to a specific form
Added automatic translation files for French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian

1.6.2 – 6 April 2023
Improved compatibility with Twenty Twenty-Two Theme
Fixed flash of un-styled content(FUOC)

1.6.1 – 29 October 2022
Fixed missing array key warning

1.6.0 – 27 October 2022
Added sample rate settings for audio record
Added settings to build record file name by custom pattern
Added displaying record ID on front-end and back-end

1.5.1 – 13 March 2022
Fixed reloading the page after pressing the "Send" button

1.5.0 – 12 August 2022
Added IP, Country and City info in the records
Added setting to display records in the Media Library
Fixed Resume button issue
Inline CSS styles replaced by CSS variables
Improved WordPress 6 compatibility
Improved plugin performance in the WordPress admin area

1.4.1 – 12 March 2022
Added options for save attachments with original file names

1.4.0 – 3 August 2021
Added Skip button, to jump over recording stage
Added replacement of a record with an attached audio file
Added option add a value from form field to the title of the record
Added a countdown counter before recording starts
Improved accessibility of the Contacter pop-up and float button
Improved WCAG 2.0 requirements compatibility
Fixed users display issue in notification settings for multisite network

1.3.2 – 14 May 2021
Fixed warnings if form not contains any additional fields

1.3.1 – 12 May 2021
Added Max Duration option for each record form
Added Attachment form field
Added Attachment file size limit setting
Added Attachment MIME type setting

1.3.0 – 6 May 2021
Fixed notification hooks
Fixed translation(.pot) file issues
Fixed few typos

1.2.0 – 26 March 2021
Fixed Resume button behavior

1.2.0 – 2 February 2021
Fixed plugin text-domain path
Added settings for buttons text

1.0.10 – 26 August 2020
Fixed issue with missing couriers
Improved WordPress 5.5 compatibility

1.0.9 – 18 July 2020
Fixed plugin update and activation issues.

1.0.8 – 7 July 2020
Fixed issue with {record_title} merge tag.

1.0.7 – 1 July 2020
Fixed issue with 'Generate Transcription' in Firefox browser.

1.0.6 – 17 Jun 2020
Added change text option for 'Download Link' button

1.0.5 – 16 Jun 2020
Added 'Show Download Link' option
Added new field 'Current URL'
Added new field 'User Details'
Added Notifications mechanism
Added new shortcode [contacter-click] to use custom content as a trigger
Added Start a new message button
Added initial compatibility check
Added Drag & Drop API Key uploading
Updated Google libraries to the latest versions
Added file-info extension status check
Minor code improvements

1.0.4 – 6 March 2020
Fixed custom PHP in Assignments
Minor code improvements

1.0.3 – 11 February 2020
Improved support of UTF-encoded languages

1.0.2 – 7 February 2020
Added URL section in the assignments tab
Fixed issue double-tap on buttons for mobile devices
Fixed duplication of default form

1.0.1 – 1 February 2020
Fixed Sample Rate issue.

1.0.0 – 1 February 2020
Initial release