wpDiscuz Voice Commenting addon adds a microphone icon/button on the right side of comment editor toolbar. This button allows to record your voice and post it as a comment. The record processing is performed by your device. Once you click the microphone icon, it asks you for corresponding permission:
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If you click the [Allow] button, it starts the voice recording process. You can see the recording timer with [Stop] and [Cancel] buttons:
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During recording, the record button will be changed to a stop and cancel buttons. Click stop to stop the recording. Once record is stopped, you can either post it as a voice comment or delete it:
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If you delete the record, it’ll suggest you again [Record] or [Cancel]:
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The voice comments will be displayed as a regular comments based on comment/reply hierarchy with the audio player. People can click the play button and listen to your message. The audio player looks different on different browsers because it’s a built-in HTML5 audio player provided by browsers:
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In the Dashboard > wpDiscuz > Settings > Voice Commenting Tab, you can manage the following settings:
- Enable/Disable voice commenting for certain comment forms
- Voice comment recording time limit
- Allow voice commenting per user role
- Allow guests to post voice comments
- Allow voice comments editing
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Installation and Configuration
If for some reason you cannot install this plugin using WordPress plugin upload system, please do that with this alternative way. Unzip, and then upload the /wpdiscuz-voice-commenting/ folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory using an FTP application like FileZilla; or any other FTP program is fine also. Make sure you have not double /wpdiscuz-voice-commenting/wpdiscuz-voice-commenting/ directories nested inside each other, please correct this before you continue. Then in WordPress, go to WordPress Dashboard > Plugins, and then activate the wpDiscuz Voice Commenting addon.