Google Text-to-Speech with Yalango
Public decks and Premium accounts get Google Text-to-Speech on cards. Text audio and the Audio game stay Premium.
Yalango uses Google Text-to-Speech to generate spoken audio for your study material.
Deck-card audio is generated automatically when you save a card if the deck is public, or if you are on Premium. Text audio and the Audio game stay Premium. Anyone can play a speaker button on a card that already has audio.
Where audio is generated
- Deck cards - created automatically for public decks and for Premium accounts. Publishing a private deck generates audio for cards that do not have it yet. See Generate audio for your cards.
- Texts - Premium only. Use Generate Audio on a text to have each sentence voiced. See Import a text.
Where you can hear it
- A speaker button on cards in your deck and your vocabulary list.
- Automatically during games, if Autoplay audio is on in your language settings.
- Sentence by sentence in text study mode.
- On sentence blocks in notebooks.
- In the Audio game, which needs at least 4 cards with audio.
Supported languages
Around 65 languages have voices, which covers most widely studied languages but not all of them. Where no voice exists, Yalango says so rather than offering the option - that's a limitation on Google's side, so publishing the deck or upgrading to Premium won't unlock it.
For Chinese, your simplified or traditional script preference is respected.
Things worth knowing
- Audio isn't generated retroactively. Upgrading to Premium, or publishing a deck, doesn't rewrite cards that already have audio. Cards that still need it are generated when you publish, or when you save the card again.
- Editing a text clears its audio. Generate audio after you've finished editing, not before.
- Exports never include audio files. A deck export covers the text of your cards only.
On the free plan
Public decks get card audio. Private decks do not, unless you upgrade. The card editor offers both: publish the deck, or upgrade for audio on private decks.
Text audio is not included. The Audio game stays Premium either way. Nothing else about your cards is affected.