The future of AwesomeTTS

I've been doing a lot of thinking about how AwesomeTTS should evolve in the future and wanted to share my thoughts.

But first, HUGE thanks to all of my fans. Cesar, RR, GD are the 3 most long standing fans, thank you !

AwesomeTTS - text to speech

AwesomeTTS has been pretty successful but I believe it needs an overhaul.

• It needs to be smarter. it should know which language my deck is in, which language I normally use, so that regular operations can be achieved with less clicks.
• Show Language first: as we add more and more TTS services, it becomes confusing for the user. Languages should be shown first, possibly with some filtering, such that the user would only see languages they're interested in. Being able to quickly try the various voices will also help.
• Simplify: some features are there for historical reasons, to the extend that no one uses them, we should remove them and simplify the code.

I don't know yet whether these improvements will be in AwesomeTTS, or in a brand new Add-on started from scratch, which would be designed in a much cleaner way. Either way, users will continue to benefit from the functionality they are currently using.

Translation

I want to create an add-on focused on translation. Both batch-generation of translated text, and also on-the-fly translation using a right click menu when selecting any text in Anki. This will allow language learners to quickly clear up any doubts they have while learning languages. It would also allow dictionary lookups.

Chinese

Finally, I am planning on creating an add-on focused on Chinese. Pinyin/Jyutping conversion, dictionary lookups, flashcard creation from examples, and other similar functionality should be supported. I have licensed the ABC Wenlin dictionary in preparation for this addon.

All of these add-ons will be paid addons due to the paid resources they require. But existing patreon fans will have access to these tools, and any new tools I create.

Do you have any ideas for add-ons centered around language learning ? Do let me know !