Some basic vocabulary that I am studying doesn't have accompanying audio. Not personal lists, but some of the preset book lists.

Any way to add audio to these lists? It would help my retention.

Thanks!

Speaking of this ... I always thought that you guys could get a native speaker to read the pinyin table with all of the combinations of pinyin, and then use that audio for every chinese character. Maybe it's more complicated than I think.

I know for words and phrases you'd have a problem, because the resulting audio would sound unnatural. But at least you'd have audio for every possible character.

If I remember correctly, all the Chinese audio is supplied courtesy of ChinesePod, in return for a basic stripped-down version of Skritter available for use on exercises on their website. So at this point audio is basically at the mercy of ChinesePod and whatever they decide to record for their lessons.

It's on our to-do to record some more of our own audio for the most common words that we're missing. We did that for Japanese, and it worked out pretty well. Just need to go through the process.

For Chinese, we should have audio for all single character pinyin syllables, excepting most of the neutral tones. But for words, if the audio isn't on ChinesePod or our other sound set based off the old HSK lists, then we don't have it.

Combining separate pinyin syllables sounds too unnatural to use, so it's not a viable solution. It would be like the TTS we have for the example sentences, but without any of the polish.