I'm probably not posting this in the right section, so I apologize beforehand.

I'm trying to get the audio functionality in the Pinyin toolkit to work with that premade Mandarni deck with 22k sentences in the latest Anki update, but I can't find any documentation on how to do this. Can someone link me to instructions on how to do this?

Thanks x100.

I don't know the answer to your question but I think this is the right place. Chinese learners have been segregated in this section of the forum. ;p

This is really a question for the Anki support forum, but you can find all the info about the Pinyin toolkit here.

Specifically, instructions for setting up your deck are found here. In essence you need to:
- Add the word 'Mandarin' to your model name (it used to be model tags, but in the new Anki the words in the name of the model act as tags)
- Add a new field called one of these: "Audio", "Sound", "Spoken", "声音"
- Make sure your chinese sentence field is called one of these: "Expression", "Hanzi", "Chinese", "汉字", "中文"
- You can add more fields, see my second link for a list of what they all do
- Update your card models so that they refer to the new field names
- Finally, go to Tools > Pinyin Toolkit > Fill missing card data

The plugin will take a while filling in all the readings, generating the sounds etc. It will finish by giving an error message (because the authors haven't updated it to be fully compatible with the latest Anki) but you can safely ignore it - the plugin works fully it just throws a false error.

Then you can use your deck.

Should it be taking over 2 hours to fill missing card data for 22,000 cards?

edit: Never mind, I wasn't sure if it was doing the process or not. It ended up taking 3.5 hours

I think the sound analysis runs very slowly, the other parts are relatively quick. Glad you got it sorted.