How to get TTS working on Linux (Ubuntu)?

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When doing cards that have a TTS field I currently get the error shown below:

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(no players found for TTSTag(field_text=‘’, lang="zh_CN’, voices=, speed=1.0, other_args=)

I did not find any clear resources on how to fix this issue. Did someone face a similar issue and solve it? I saw another post on how to remove the popup, but I want to not just remove the popup but get the text to speech to work.

Thanks for any help in advance!

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You need to have to have the TTS voices available for it to work. Anki has third-party add-ons like AwesomeTTS and HyperTTS, have you checked those?

As for resource, check the manual: Field Replacements - Anki Manual

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Thanks a lot! The gTTS add-on was the thing I was looking for - simple and effective (I tried HyperTTS but that was unnecessarily complicated for my use-case). Somehow I did not come upon the documentation section on my search (I only searched Google/DuckDuckGo and did not check the docs in particular - my mistake).

In any case, thanks a lot for your help!

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