How do you do pronunciation

Data Juggler 181

Recently I had a script for a programming video, and I needed the word GUID, or goo id. I tried typing many different ways, and the only way I could get the word GUID, was to type goo hid, and use an audio editor and get rid of the H sound.

Azure Speech AI pronounces id, even in lower case, as "EYE D".

Thanks

P.S. Related Joke - A man from North Carolina gets pulled over in Texas, and the officer asks the man 'Do you have any ID?'

The man replies, 'Do I have any ID about what?'

navba-MSFT 18,980 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-05-27T04:28:35.41+00:00
@Data Juggler Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

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To achieve the desired pronunciation without extensive manual editing, you can use SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language). SSML allows you to provide explicit instructions on how certain words or phrases should be pronounced.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/speech-synthesis-markup-pronunciation

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You can leverage the Phoneme Tag: This tag allows you to specify the pronunciation using phonetic alphabet notation. For "goo id", you might want to break it down phonetically.

<speak version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xml:lang="en-US"> <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="ɡuː ɪd">GUID</phoneme> </speak>

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Or, if the phoneme approach doesn't give satisfactory results, you can try breaking the word with pauses:

<speak version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xml:lang="en-US"> <prosody rate="slow">goo</prosody><break time="200ms"/><prosody rate="slow">id</prosody> </speak>

Hope this helps. If you have any follow-up questions, please let me know. I would be happy to help.
navba-MSFT 18,980 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-05-29T05:01:47.5866667+00:00

@Data Juggler Just following up to check if my suggestion helped. Please let me know if you have any further queries. I would be happy to help.

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