Controlling Pronunciation for Specific Words
7 min
click "edit" button on the digital humans and then navigate to "control pronunciation" when you want to ensure that specific words (such as your brand name or technical terms) are pronounced correctly, you can manually control how they are spoken follow this guide to adjust and verify pronunciations effectively 1\ accessing the pronunciation control feature navigate to "control pronunciation" 2\ adding words to the pronunciation list step 1 click on "add your first word +" this opens a field where you can input the word you want to modify 3 adding words to the pronunciation list original word enter the word you want to modify new pronunciation write the phonetic or desired way the word should be pronounced example original word "brandname" new pronunciation "bran d naym" 4\ verifying pronunciation once the word is added and its pronunciation is written, click the play button in the preview section listen to the playback to verify if the word is being pronounced as desired if necessary, adjust the pronunciation until it sounds correct 5\ save your changes after ensuring the word is pronounced correctly, save your changes to apply them throughout the system by following these steps, you can ensure that your brand name or any specific term is pronounced exactly as you intend microphone phrases the phrases section lets you teach your digital human to correctly recognise specific words when users speak through the microphone speech recognition works well for everyday language, but can struggle with terms that fall outside common vocabulary; brand names, technical jargon, acronyms, and unusual proper nouns are common culprits adding these words as phrases improves accuracy for the conversations that matter most to your use case what to add any word or short phrase that is likely to appear in conversations but may not be recognised reliably out of the box, for example brand names product names company names uncommon names technical terms acronyms location names how to add a phrase go to the phrases section click add new + enter the word or phrase save your changes when to use this use this section when the digital human often misunderstands important spoken words adding phrases helps improve microphone recognition and makes voice conversations more accurate