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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...
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.
Hi 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!