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JoshuaNishihama
8 years agoCommunity Member
How to get Text to Speech to pronounce phonetics and all the individual letters sounds
Hello,
I am developing a course for English learners and I need some way of getting the text to speech to pronounce phonetics that are taught in phonics. By this, I mean short vowels such as ă, ĕ,...
AlyssaGomez
8 years agoStaff
Hi Joshua,
The Text-to-Speech feature works best with full words, but it seems to also recognize partial words when a vowel is involved.
For example, ă, ĕ, ĭ, ŏ, ŭ could be "ah, eh, ih, oh, ooh." However, "sh" doesn't work well because there's no vowel in the phonetic spelling.
Have you considered recording a human voice pronouncing these phonetics using the narration tool?