Disabling audio of Front (show only text) on back side of card

Anki Card Design
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I have the following fields on my note:

German (has text + audio)
Russian (has text + audio)

Example German:
ertragbar [ertragbar.mp3]

Example Russian:
терпимо [терпимо.mp3]

I study these notes with two card designs:
Card1: German → Russian
Card2: Russian → German

With these two card designs, I always get the text and the audio and whenever I cannot listen to audio for any reason, I just mute my phone or laptop.
But whenever I see the solution (Back), it first plays the audio of the Front card again and then the audio of the Back (obviously, as both fields contains both text and audio).
Is there a way to mute the audio of the Front card when I am on the Back side of the card and only hear the audio of the Back card so that I don’t have to hear the word that I am asked for twice (once when it’s on the Front and once when it’s on the Back again?)

I know that by chosing a card design where the audio is in a separate field, this problem can be mitigated, but that would mean for every card I would always have to move the sound part to a different field, which would mean many more clicks and keyboard presses. With my current card design it’s quite straightforward in combination with AwesomeTTS as it just appends the sound tag to the field.

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On your back template, are you naming the field from the front again – or are you using {{FrontSide}}? That special field will not replay the audio, which sounds like what you want.

I haven’t used AwesomeTTS in some time, so I might not be remembering this correctly – but doesn’t AwesomeTTS use source and target fields? I am not sure it would be any more complicated for you to put the audio in a separate field from the text. That gives you so much more flexibility in the long run.

If I’m mistaken, and it really is more complicated – that’s an excellent reason for you to move from Awesome to its improved cousin HyperTTS, where you’ll be able to set up preset rules for your note type to do this quite easily.

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Thank you for your advice, I have taken on it and switched over to HyperTTS. Turns out it also has other advantages apart from presets, such as much quicker batch conversion. Thanks!

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