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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,...
LoriArndt-d4ee8
2 years agoCommunity Member
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.
JoseTansengco
12 months agoStaff
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.