Luc Wastiaux

New High Quality Korean and Japanese voices

Language Tools now has high quality Korean and Japanese voices from Naver ! These are marked "Premium", there are 15 Korean voices (+ 2 child voices), and 3 Japanese voices. Some o...

Have you backed up your Anki decks this month?

Backups are super important for any data that you invest a lot of time in. Do yourself a favor: from the Anki main screen, click File → Export, click Export..... save the colpkg file somewhere on...

API Keys: introducing AwesomeTTS Plus

In an attempt to simplify the key management in AwesomeTTS, I am introducing AwesomeTTS Plus, which is simply a way to enjoy all of the premium TTS services without typing a lot of...

How do you configure your voices ?

I'm trying to determine how to best handle voice presets in Language Tools. Feel free to elaborate on your setup in the comments.

Language Tools: Watson Text-to-Speech and Translation

 A new service has been added to Language Tools: IBM Watson. It provides translation in 54 languages, and also 54 audio voices. Some of the higher quality voices are marked as Dnn (deep neural...

Anki Language Tools v1.3: Automatic Conversions

Language Tools is the next generation of all-in-one Language Learning Anki addon, destined to be the successor of AwesomeTTS. You can read more about it and how to get started here...

Need assistance with Anki ?

Do you have a problem you're trying to solve with your flashcards ? Not necessarily just with AwesomeTTS. Any question you may have, any thing you don't understand, please message me and I'll try t...

Anki Language Tools v0.8: Audio Support

Language Toolsis the next generation of all-in-one Language Learning Anki addon, destined to be the successor of AwesomeTTS. You can read more about it and how to get started here:...

Neural/WaveNet voices: which sound better?

Which voices sound better? 

Which language are you studying ?

AwesomeTTS v1.29 released: updated Google voices

• Updated list of Google voices, which now more clearly indicate language and gender.
• Added URL parameter for IBM Watson, to allow use of any API key.

Note: the IBM Watson ...

AwesomeTTS v1.28 released: support for IBM Watson

•  New service: IBM Watson
• Added Baidu service
• Fixed homescreen widget width
• Updated Azure voice list

Patreon fans have access to Watson, please refe...

The future of AwesomeTTS

I've been doing a lot of thinking about how AwesomeTTS should evolve in the future and wanted to share my thoughts.

But first, HUGE thanks to all of my fans. Cesar, RR, GD are the 3 most long...

AwesomeTTS v1.27 released

• Added deck picker widget to allow quickly pronouncing text based on your presets. Can be disabled in preferences.
• Added a way to output debug logging on the command line
• Fix...
  2020-10-29 14:21:38 +0000 UTC View Post

AwesomeTTS v1.26 release: bugfix with TTS tag

I have a fixed an issue where the TTS tag settings were not remembered correctly. Apologies for the bug.

AwesomeTTS 1.25 released

• Display error message if on-the-fly TTS audio couldn't be played.
• Run replacement logic (i.e. stripping, brackets) on on-the-fly TTS text.

Thanks to a couple of people wh...

AwesomeTTS 1.24 released

• On the fly TTS tag now uses the Anki syntax. You have to re-add the tag into your card templates.
•  Removed some playback settings (delay, etc) which are not applicable anymore 2020-10-16 11:26:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Mandarin Cantonese Google Sheets Add-on: more accurate Pinyin

I've just released an update to the Mandarin Cantonese Google Sheets add-on. For those studying chinese, particularly online with a teacher, this is an invaluable tool to make vocabulary lists coll...

AwesomeTTS 1.22 released

•  added Naver Clova TTS service
• added Naver Clova Premium Voice service (Korean)
• Fixed a crash with the card template screen on Anki 2.1.28

note: patreon fan...

Super simple Anki style for language flashcards

Creating Anki styles for your decks is intimidating but I want to share a simple one that I'm using, which looks better than the default Anki look.

This tutorial is designed for people who ha...

AwesomeTTS v1.21 released

• fixed crash when adding sound to individual cards
• added speed setting for Azure
• fixed FPT.AI Vietnamese voice naming

New Anki Addon: Quick Field Focus

another very simple addon:  Quickly focus on a particular field in the card browser using a keyboard shortcut. 

 When trying to populate a particular field for...

New Anki Addon: Quick Clipboard Copy

I just released a new, very simple addon: automatically copy a particular field to the clipboard when selecting a note in the browser.

 When organizing my Anki flashcard...

AwesomeTTS v1.20 released

 It contains the following fixes / features:

• Updated Azure voice list
• Added FPT.AI Vietnamese TTS
• Added speed option for Google Translate

Google Sheets Pinyin: Traditional Chinese now supported

This was a request by a fan, Cesar. You can now convert Traditional Chinese to Pinyin without any issue. Useful for those studying Traditional characters, or perhaps those in Taiwan.

More inf...

AwesomeTTS v1.18 released

It contains the following fixes:

• Azure: you can now select the region (east-US is the default). Authentication tokens are generated every 5mn, to fix a bug where if Anki has been runnin...
  2020-07-05 12:18:29 +0000 UTC View Post

What's going on with Google Sheets Mandarin Cantonese API ?

New users are unable to sign in, getting a message "not authorized". The short version is that google is being difficult, asking me to jump through hoops to enable the addon again. I've apparently ...

AnkiReview: preview of upcoming Teacher Mode !

Creating Audio Flashcards in Mandarin or Cantonese

 This post explains how to create Audio Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese) Flashcards in Anki. Enhance your Chinese learning with amazingly natural Chinese voices !

First, backup your ...