TTS Audio Stops Mid-Sentence While Reading Cards (Front & Back) — Anyone Else Experiencing This?

🐛 Bug
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Hi everyone,

I’m running into an issue where Anki’s built-in TTS starts reading the card but then abruptly stops mid-sentence. This happens on both the front and back of the card, and it seems to occur randomly while the audio is playing.

Environment

  • Anki Desktop (latest version)

  • Using AnkiHub-managed AnKing note types

  • TTS enabled via the card template

  • Cards synced through AnkiHub

Symptoms

  • TTS begins normally

  • After ~1–3 seconds, the audio cuts off

  • Sometimes restarting the card lets it finish, sometimes not

  • Happens on both front and back TTS playback

Things I’ve already tried

  1. Removed the AMBOSS script snippet that had previously been present in the template:
<script type="module" src="https://content-gateway.us.production.amboss.com/amboss.js" id="amboss-snippet"></script>

  1. Restarted Anki after removing the script.

  2. Checked add-ons that might affect card rendering. Current enabled add-ons include:

  • Advanced Browser

  • AMBOSS add-on

  • Anki Killstreaks – Reward Medals for Correct Answers

  • Anki Remote – Customize

  • Anki Terminator V2 – ChatGPT DeepSeek Sidebar

  • AnkiConnect

  • AnkiHub

  • AnKing Note Types Easy Customization

  • Auto Highlight Cloze in Browser

  • BetterSearch

  • Change Interface Font

  • Clickable Tags v20

  • Colorful Tags – Hierarchical Tags

  • Custom Background Image and Gear Icon

  • FSRS Helper

  • High Yield Tags

  • Image Occlusion Enhanced

  • More Decks Stats and Time Left

  • Multi search using a list of words

  • Remaining time for Anki

  • Review Heatmap

  • Review Lookup – Search and Popup cards by selected text

  • Search Stats Extended

  • Study Time Stats

  • Tag Statistics – cards statistics by Tag

  • The KING of Button Add-ons

(Several others are installed but disabled.)

  1. The issue still occurs even when the AMBOSS add-on itself is disabled.

Current TTS Code in Card Template

Here is what I currently have in the TTS section of the card template:

{{tts en_US voices=Apple_Samantha speed=1.6:Text}}

(Text is the field containing the card content.)

Questions

  1. Has anyone else experienced TTS cutting off mid-sentence with AnkiHub cards?

  2. Are there any known add-on conflicts with TTS in the reviewer?

  3. Is there a recommended way to implement TTS in AnkiHub-managed templates so it isn’t interrupted?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated if someone else has run into this with the AnKing + AnkiHub setup.

Thanks!

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Hello,

Starting Anki in safe mode will temporarily disable all add-ons. To do this, open Anki while holding down the Shift key. See if the error persists even when all add-ons are disabled.

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Ahh okay, seems like one of my add ons is affecting it. Looks like ill have to tease through all of them. Thank you!

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After disabling groups of add-ons and restarting Anki between tests, the TTS interruption completely stopped when the following add-ons were disabled:

  • Anki Remote – Customize

  • Clickable Tags v20

  • Image Occlusion Enhanced

  • Tag Statistics – card statistics by Tag (Fixed by Shige)

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