anki: migrate English notes to TTS note types

A developer migrated 1,089 English notes in Anki to dedicated note types with British English text-to-speech, removing 7 reverse cards and preserving all review data, using Anki's Python package after AnkiConnect lacked a changeNoteType action. The migration, rehearsed on a database copy, resulted in 1,086 language notes and 3 cloze notes, with integrity check passing and a successful AnkiWeb sync.

♠ Previously https://perrotta.dev/2026/04/anki-flashcard-generation-with-claude-code/ . Problem statement : migrate my English 🇬🇧 deck to dedicated note types with British English text-to-speech, without adding reverse cards. I created English Language Card 🇬🇧 with four fields Front , Front Example , Back , and Striked and only one card template: {{Front}} {{tts en GB:Front}} {{ Front Example}} <br <i {{Front Example}}</i {{tts en GB:Front Example}} {{/Front Example}} English Grammatik Cloze 🇬🇧 uses the same TTS setup for cloze notes: {{cloze:Text}} {{tts en GB:Text}} AnkiConnect could create both types, but did not expose a changeNoteType action. I closed Anki and used its own Python package instead. Before changing the collection, I exported the English deck and copied the SQLite database: 4.8M pre-english-note-type-migration-2026-08-22-13.27.44.apkg 9.9M pre-english-note-type-migration-2026-08-22-13.29.08.collection.anki2 The field and template maps did the migration in place: col.models.change basic, groups "Basic" , language, {0: 0, 1: 2}, {0: 0} col.models.change cloze, groups "Cloze" , english cloze, {0: 0, 1: 1}, None I rehearsed the migration against the database copy before running it for real: % PYTHONPATH=/Applications/Anki.app/Contents/Resources/app packages \ /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.13 /tmp/anki migrate english.py \ ~/Library/Application\ Support/Anki2/User\ 1/collection.anki2 { "notes": 1089, "cards before": 1096, "cards after": 1089, "language notes": 1086, "cloze notes": 3, "removed reverse cards": 7, "integrity": "ok" } The script also checked every mapped field, retained card ID, and review-log count. After a full upload to AnkiWeb, a normal sync passed. No reverse cards, and all English notes can now speak for themselves pun intended . 🤖 Drafted with ∎ /bloggify .— § — Reply via email mailto:serendipity@perrotta.dev?subject=Reply to: anki: migrate English notes to TTS note types