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Tariq Waseem

Can I change the pronunciation of any AI speaker in ElevenLabs

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I was making a demo video for my product. For the voice-over, I was using ElevenLabs. My brand name is "LeanAI," but the AI speaker called it "le nee." Is there any option to change the pronunciation of such words?

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steve beyatte

@mr_tariq_waseem_ looks like @ElevenLabs does support pronunciation, check out the Eleven Labs Prompting Guide for Pronunciation

If you want to force a certain pronunciation, you can use SSML phoneme tags. We support both IPA and CMU. However, we have found that CMU, with the current implementation, seems to be a bit more predictable, consistent, and better overall. You can find out more about this in our guide to Prompting.

This is available on the following models:

  • English v1

  • Turbo v2

  • Flash v2

Alternatively, a workaround is to find an alternative spelling and write a word more phonetically. You can employ various tricks such as capital letters, dashes, apostrophes, or even single quotation marks around a single letter or letters.

As an example, a word like "trapezii" could be spelt "trapezIi" to put more emphasis on the "ii" of the word.