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Phonos does not support Chinese IPA
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Phonos does not support Chinese IPA, for example:
wikitext(IPA of "江"):

<phonos ipa="tɕjɑŋ˥˥" text="" lang="cmn-CN" />

give error:

The generated audio appears to be empty. The given IPA may be invalid, or is not supported by the engine. Using the 'text' parameter may help.

Chinese IPA test data from IPA dictionary project.

more test see https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Phonos#Chinese

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Phonos does not support Chinese IPA because Google's text-to-speech, which Phonos relies on (on WMF sites), doesn't. It does accept Pinyin for Mandarin and Jyutping for Cantonese, however. The task for supporting them is T324109.