APPENDIX N: RealSpeak SPEECH TIPS
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Appendix N: RealSpeak
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Speech Tips
Note: RealSpeak, AT&T Natural Voices and Acapella speech use the Speech Application
Program Interface (SAPI) and the following directions should work for all three synthesizers.
You can change the pronunciation of words, alter the rate at which words are spoken in a
sentence, add pauses to sentences and tell RealSpeak to spell words out rather than pronounce
them. To do these things you must use certain tags that tell RealSpeak what you want it to do.
In the following pages you will learn how to use these tags. You will also learn how RealSpeak
handles numbers and you will find phoneme charts to use for entering correct pronunciation.
Pronouncing Words Correctly
RealSpeak may not pronounce some words, especially nouns such as names of people or places,
correctly. To teach the correct pronunciation of any word, you must enter it phonetically using a
specific tag. This tag is shown below.
<pron sym="phonetic string"/>
Using this tag, you can enter words phonetically into the Speech Dictionary or into messages that
you are storing.
Important Note: Phonemes must always be separated by spaces.
For example: the phonetic spelling of "bed" is B EH D. The phonetic spelling of "about" is AX B
A + UH T. You must add a space between each phoneme.
Phoneme tables and instructions are available for three English language variations: American
English (page
Error! Bookmark not defined.); British English (page 347); and Australian
English (page
351).
Note: The following RealSpeak tips and charts are used by permission of Nuance Communications, Inc.
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