VOICEVOX Audio Generator for Anki
Generate high quality Japanese audio for your Anki cards using the VOICEVOX speech synthesis software
No more dealing with addons that break randomly after a while or generate low quality audio. You can run VOICEVOX for free on your own computer and generate high quality Japanese audio with a simple right click in the card browser.
Showoff and setup guide video: https://youtu.be/-V3pnCuEIxw
Download VOICEVOX: https://voicevox.hiroshiba.jp/
Download from AnkiWeb: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/366960193
View Code on GitHub: https://github.com/Toocanzs/anki-voicevox
What does this do?
This is a text to speech addon for Anki that makes use of the VOICEVOX speech synthesis engine to generate audio for Japanese Anki cards.
Setup
IMPORTANT: This addon requires that the VOICEVOX engine service is running in order to generate audio. To setup VOICEVOX for this addon, follow these steps (Video guide here https://youtu.be/-V3pnCuEIxw):
You can download VOICEVOX from here: https://voicevox.hiroshiba.jp/
I prefer the zip package, but you can use the installer if you like Note that it’s about 1gb in size. This is a machine learning model so it’s quite large
Download the addon from AnkiWeb: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/366960193
Navigate to your VOICEVOX install and find run.exe. run.exe will launch the VOICEVOX engine and allow Anki to communicate with it.
You must keep run.exe running to generate audio in Anki You can also run the GUI version VOICEVOX.exe instead if you’d prefer
Open the Anki card browser and right click on any card and select “Generate VOICEVOX Audio” from the dropdown
You can drag and select multiple cards to generate audio for many cards at once. Note that if you select two different types of cards only the fields that they have in common will appear in the source/destination dropdown.
Select the source and destination fields for generating audio
Source refers to which field the addon should read from to generate audio. For example you usually want to read from the Sentence field or similar. Destination refers to the field that the addon should output the audio to. Fields like Audio or Audio On Front. Whatever field you want the audio to be placed in. NOTE: This will overwrite the contents of this field, so don’t select any field you don’t want overwritten with audio
Select a speaker and a style from the dropdown. You can preview the voices by selecting “Preview Voice”
Click “Generate Audio” and wait for the audio to be generated
Note that the time it takes to generate audio can vary based on your hardware. VOICEVOX works whether you run it on a dedicated GPU or just a CPU, but running it on the CPU will be much slower. Building Windows Building the .ankiaddon can be done on by running build.bat NOTE: requires powershell 7 ( run winget upgrade Microsoft.PowerShell to get powershell 7) Linux On Linux there currently isn’t a one click build setup, but all that needs to be done is to zip everything except for meta.json(it may not exist) into a .zip file, and then rename to a .ankiaddon file
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Reviews (28)
👍 2026-02-17
ありがとうございました。
👍 2026-01-22
Absolute game changer, I was still using an old TTS extension, this is so much better
👍 2025-12-19
Thank you for your contribution. God bless you!
👍 2025-12-14
works perfectly
👍 2025-12-10
Thank you! It works perfectly and has improved my cards, listening skills, and overall fun using them. Really appreciate it.
👍 2025-12-08
perfect
👍 2025-11-07
这真的能用！而且确实很方便！感谢开发者！ It really works!Thank you very much!
👍 2025-10-11
Fabulous!! it works easily and incredibly! ありがとうございます！！
👍 2025-10-03
Perfect add-on for creating Japanese audio. Thank you!
👍 2025-09-01
Amazing, thank you!!
👍 2025-08-28
this works really well and all for free. thanks for your work on this.
👍 2025-07-21
its not working, im get stuck when i restart anki and still be there
👍 2025-07-09
Anki not working after installing addon
👍 2025-04-10
Great stuff, easy to set up, simple to use, many voices. Is there a way to set up a keyboard shortcut so it generates audio on press? Or on open card? Thanks anyhow, lovely addon.
👍 2025-04-09
Awesome addon, now I can have Namine Ritsu teach me japanese :3
👍 2025-04-03
Really save me from the tts, thank you very much!!
👍 2025-03-04
Awesome addon, just what I need. Thank you for the hard work!
👍 2025-02-22
Amazing add-on!!! Thank you!
👍 2025-01-29
Excellent. Works well as a connection to voicebox which provides super native sounding audio with a range of speakers from more normal to very anime sounding. Way better quality than anything else for practicing listening to my flashcard vocab.
For anyone having an issue with the beginning of the audio cutting off and being very quiet, turn “initial silence” bar UP. solves the problem.
👍 2025-01-29
Game changer. I use this for all of my words for review. VoiceVox doesn’t always get the readings right but having high quality tts on words is huge.
👍 2025-01-13
Works as advertised, great experience! Thank you for building and maintaining it!
👍 2025-01-07
I love this Add on!
👍 2024-10-17
This add-on has reduced hundreds of hours of work down to a few minutes! And, with more options than I could hope for! - Brilliant! A real game changer I think!
👍 2024-10-14
Perfect thank you
👍 2024-09-07
This is incredibly awesome. Confirmed that it works on MacOS as well, even though the instructions are for Windows.
👍 2024-07-18
Every Japanese TTS service for this app is either a. incredibly hard to use b. outdated c. doesn’t work because tech companies time people out for using their API for more than 2 seconds nowadays or d. all of the above. This one circumvents the third problem by having the audio be generated offline, but forcing overwriting makes me choose between not having audio or removing a side from all my cards. Giving up on finding a way to put audio on my cards after hours is not a good feeling, and it ev
👍 2024-05-29
Works great!
👍 2024-05-28
top tier sound, thanks!
