ankiazvox 0.3.1

A CLI tool to synchronize Anki notes with high-quality Azure TTS audio.

ankiazvox

ankiazvox is a professional CLI tool designed to synchronize Anki notes with high-quality neural audio powered by Azure Cognitive Services. It automates the process of fetching text, stripping HTML, generating speech, and updating your Anki cards.

✨ Features

• Neural TTS: Uses Azure's state-of-the-art Neural voices for natural, human-like speech.
• HTML Sanitization: Automatically strips HTML tags (like <br>, <div>) from your Anki fields to ensure clean speech synthesis.
• Overwrite Protection: Smartly skips notes that already have audio to save API quota, with an optional --overwrite flag.
• Seamless Integration: Automatically uploads audio to Anki's media folder and updates the [sound:...] tags via AnkiConnect.
• Voice Explorer: Built-in command to list and filter available Azure voices by locale.
• Auto-Cleanup: Automatically removes temporary audio files after synchronization is complete.
• Flexible CLI: Built with Click for a smooth command-line experience.

🚀 Installation

1. Prerequisites

• Anki Desktop with the AnkiConnect add-on installed.
• An Azure Speech Service subscription (Key and Region).

2. Install via pip

pip install ankiazvox

3. Install from Source

git clone https://github.com/ericxu131/ankiazvox.git
cd ankiazvox  
pip install .

⚙️ Configuration

Create a .env file in your working directory (or specify one via --env):

# AnkiConnect Settings  
ANKI_CONNECT_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8765

# Azure Speech Settings  
AZURE_SPEECH_KEY=your_azure_api_key  
AZURE_SPEECH_REGION=your_service_region (e.g., eastus)

# Default Voice Configuration  
DEFAULT_VOICE=en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural

🛠 Usage

You can use the azv alias or the full ankiazvox command.

1. Synchronize Audio (sync)

Sync notes from a deck. By default, it skips fields that already contain audio data.

azv sync --query "deck:English" --source "Front" --target "Audio"

Force overwrite existing audio and limit to 5 notes:

azv sync -q "tag:review" -s "Word" -t "Sound" --overwrite --limit 5

Option	Short	Description
--query	-q	Anki search query (e.g., deck:Default)
--source	-s	Field name containing the text to synthesize
--target	-t	Field name where the [sound:...] tag will be saved
--overwrite		Force update the target field even if it has a value
--voice	-v	Override the default Azure voice
--limit		Max number of notes to process
--env		Path to a specific .env file

2. List Voices (list-voices)

Explore available neural voices:

azv list-voices --locale zh-CN

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

Distributed under the MIT License.

👤 Author

Eric Xu - [e-mail]
Project Link: https://github.com/ericxu131/ankiazvox