Spoken Content is a built-in accessibility feature on Mac that allows selected text to be spoken and highlighted using a keyboard shortcut. However, I’m encountering an issue with the latest Anki version (24.06.3) on my Apple Silicon Mac. When I use the shortcut, instead of speaking the selected text, it reads the entire page. This behavior persists both before and after revealing the answer to a question. This issue doesn’t occur on iOS. A fix for this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
One way to go about this is to add text-to-speech formatting to your card template.
For example:
{{tts en_US voices=Apple_Samantha,Microsoft_Zira speed=1.0:cloze:Text}}
This is already built-in with certain note types (Anking, etc.), though can be manually added to any other note type with minimal fuss. A basic tutorial can be found here:
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Thanks, Brainravens. I tried Anki’s current Text-to-Speech feature. While it’s functional, it has some limitations. It reads the entire card instead of a selected text, lacks a pause button (pause shortcut from menu bottom right didn’t pause it for me) , and adjusting the speed affects the entire card.
In contrast, Apple’s built-in Spoken Content feature offers more granular control: it can read selected text, highlight the spoken portion [Photo], pause, adjust speed, and navigate between paragraphs. [Photo].
For flashcards with longer or multiple paragraphs, Anki’s current Text-to-Speech feature falls short. I hope a future update for the MacOS version will integrate the more robust text-to-speech of Spoken Content.
Anki is built on a cross-platform toolkit, which unfortunately doesn’t implement all platform-specific features like this. It’s possible they’ll fix it in a future update, but based on previous experience, it’s probably not going to happen soon I’m afraid.
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