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JoshuaNishihama
Community Member
8 years ago

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,...
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RenGomez
Staff
5 years ago

Hi Christine,

Thanks for reaching out! It sounds like you're also using Text-to-Speech and are running into issues getting certain sounds with the letter "A."

What language are you using? If you're using English (US), I had no issues with using the letter "A" or "Ay" to sound like the ending in way using Joanna's Voice.

Using "Ahh," I noticed that the sound was short, like "uh." Perhaps you can try "Auh" and see if that works for you!

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    LoriArndt-d4ee8
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Hello, can you please suggest: How to write for ssml markup for short and long vowel sounds within words. For example, a short 'i' sound. . .to pronounce the 'i' as 'y'?  If we write for phonemic without SSML markup - the 'lyve' spelling in text to speech appears in closed captioning. Using English (US) neural voices.

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      JoseTansengco
      Staff
      12 months ago

      Hi Lori,

      Happy to help!

      You can check out this article to learn how to distinguish between homonyms using SSML tags. The article also contains some examples, so feel free to substitute the word "lead" with the word "live" and you should get similar results.