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NancyGoodman
5 months agoCommunity Member
AI Voice Mispronouncing "Contracting"
 I have tried numerous ways to have the AI voice narrator say the word Contracting as a noun with emphasis on the 1st syllable, not the second. Despite phonetic spelling, it will continues to accent t...
NancyGoodman
5 months agoCommunity Member
Jose, I tried to use this tag, but it still does not place the emphasis on the 1st syllable. I have tried everything and nothing seems to work.
- JoseTansengco5 months agoStaffHi NancyGoodman, You can also try using the <phoneme> tag to explicitly define how you want a word to be pronounced. I'm unsure of how it's done for the word pronunciation, but here's an example you can play around with: 
 <speak>
 You say, <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="pɪˈkɑːn">pecan</phoneme>.
 I say, <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="ˈpi.kæn">pecan</phoneme>.
 </speak>I'll let other community members chime in in case the <phoneme> or <w> tags aren't the best tags to use in this scenario! 
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