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SSML - change pronunciation of "conduct" so accent is on the second syllable.
Hi! I have a sentence where the AI voice is putting the emphasis on the 'con' instead of the 'duct' in the word conduct, e.g. "If you would like to conduct a survey." I'm assuming that I need to use...
Ok, I tried again, asking Copilot a different way ("SSMl for the verb conduct shift accent to second syllable"), and got this code that works:
<speak>
<phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="kən'dʌkt">conduct</phoneme>
</speak>
Thanks for posting this! Your post helped me figure out a solution to a variation on your conduct pronunciation. In my case, I desired to use the verb form of "convert" vs the noun form. Here's how I solved it:
i.e.,
<speak>
<phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="kənˈvərt">convert</phoneme>
</speak>
If you desire the noun, do nothing.
Pity that there isn't a collection of words on the web requiring unique phoneme tags.
