matthewschmidtuf

At the risk of bringing a zombie post back from the dead, I am running into this issue as well.

I am able to add text-to-speech on individual pages by updating them. However, when I try to bulk update the entire site, I am presented with a progress bar that shows “Loading…”, but does not progress (regardless of how long it processes).

Here’s a screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b7cAJadY6EFeD67fK1k-m4sq5N_TcQwY/view?usp=sharing

When I select the “Bulk update” button in the settings, I am presented with the following. It seems odd because it reports 0 pieces of text-based content, but then totals the characters (?).

You are about to convert 0 pieces of text-based content, which totals approximately 99,969 characters. Based on the Amazon Polly pricing ($4 dollars per 1 million characters) it will cost you about $0 to convert all of your content into to speech-based audio. Some or all of your costs might be covered by the Free Tier (conversion of 5 million characters per month for free, for the first 12 months, starting from the first request for speech). Learn more https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

Perhaps this will help with diagnosing the problem:

1. The first time I attempted to run the bulk update, it started, but appeared to hang and never completed.

2. I am trying to do text-to-speech on non-standard post types (sfwd-courses sfwd-lessons sfwd-topic).

3. I created a new AWS account and set this up in the plugin settings, but had the same results.

4. I can bulk update using the method of selecting posts manually as described in the previous post, then bulk editing–>updating. This is not really ideal, as it requires a great deal of manual inputs, and leads to user error.