Windows Voice Typing (WIN+H) causes Anki to crash

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I’m using Windows 11 Voice Typing (WIN+H) with Cantonese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR) to input answers into a card and then pressing enter for the card to check whether the character spoken matches the correct answer (to test verbal recall).

Every time I try this input method, it works for one card and then Anki crashes after I dictate the input into the second card before pressing enter to activate the answer check.

It is a very consistent error. Is there another way I can dictate foreign languages into the Anki desktop version?

The crash doesn’t happen when using English (Australia) Windows Voice Typing to dictate into Anki.

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Have you tried using Cantonese Voice Typing in other apps, including also using the keyboard to interact while you’re doing it? Does that work?

When you respond, also paste here what you get from Help > About > Copy debug info.

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Thanks for your reply. Yes I’ve tried Windows Cantonese Voice Typing in Evernote, Microsoft Word, Notepad and textboxes within Google Chrome and it works within all those environments.

Voice typing works in those programs regardless of whether I input purely via voice or inputting firstly via voice and then editing the text string with my keyboard.

Below is my debug info from Anki for your review - thanks so much for helping me get to the bottom of this!

Anki 24.06.3 (d678e393) (ao)
Python 3.9.18 Qt 6.6.2 PyQt 6.6.1
Platform: Windows-10-10.0.22631

===Add-ons (active)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])
Advanced Browser [‘874215009’, 2023-10-22T01:34, ‘None’, ‘’]
Anki Leaderboard - Compete with friends to boost motivation Fork by Shige [‘175794613’, 2024-07-13T02:49, ‘None’, mod]
Memrise Cards Lt [‘884199977’, 2024-04-11T16:48, ‘None’, ‘’]
Pokmanki [‘1041307953’, 2023-12-03T01:32, ‘None’, ‘’]
Review Heatmap [‘1771074083’, 2022-06-30T11:43, ‘None’, ‘’]

===IDs of active AnkiWeb add-ons===
1041307953 175794613 1771074083 874215009 884199977

===Add-ons (inactive)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])

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Unfortunately it’s likely a bug in the toolkit Anki is built on. If you’d like to report it to them so it may be fixed in a future update: Report an issue to Qt · Issue #2652 · ankitects/anki · GitHub

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