This is an add-on to generate voice from text and add it to Anki cards, using local AI Text to Speech Piper. After downloading an AI voice from the options, you can quickly generate an AI voice locally from the selected text or notes. Currently about 25 languages are supported.

• Piper (open source AI text-to-speech project)
• Sample audio

How to use

Select a language and a voice from the options of the add-on, and download the voice file. (A single voice is about 60MB-100MB) You can play the voice from the menu by selecting the text in the reviewer and right-clicking, or you can save the voice to a field on the selected card. If you select multiple notes in the browser you can bulk add audio from the field.

1. Select text in reviewer and save or read out loud
2. Select notes in browser and add audio in bulk
3. Options to add new language and settings to add in bulk

Audio saving format (FFmpeg)

Edit 2025-12-31: This explanation is outdated. I added a new feature to convert wav files to mp3 using Anki alone, unless an error occurs, it will auto save as mp3 even without ffmpeg.

The default audio file format saved is Wav. To save as mp3 you will need FFmpeg. If you already have FFmpeg installed on your laptop, the audio will be automatically converted to mp3. (Wav is large in size, while Mp3 is relatively small because it is compressed.)

• FFmpeg download page

• Or, see the “Watch Foreign Language Movies with Anki” add-on page of the popular add-on for clear instructions on how to download FFmeg. add-on:

If you have difficulty installing FFmpeg, this add-on will automatically download FFmpeg to the add-on folder and use FFmpeg. addon: FFmpeg Downloader (Create by Shigeඞ)

Note

• Not sure if it works on MacOS. (it has not been tested yet)
• Each voice file is about 60MB - 100MB in size.
• Some languages are not supported. (e.g. Japanese. Still under development by the developers of Piper).
• So far no TTS other than Piper has been incorporated. (the popular add-ons HypertTTS and AwsomeTTS support most types of TTS, so I think there is not much need to develop them.)

What are the advantages of Piper?

• Piper is an open source project so it is free to use AI natural speech locally.
• Most of Piper's voices are Creative Commons licensed so you are free to redistribute and use the voices generated (e.g. commercial use or distribution of Windows or Siri TTS may be prohibited). But some may not be, check the sample audio page for the exact license if you need it: Sample audio

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