#Do you get more consistent results with CMU or IPA pronuncation?

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tawny doveBOT
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AI-generated Answer for vainoklement

The content provided does not specify whether the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) or the CMU Arpabet results in more consistent outcomes. Both are supported and can be used to specify pronunciation in the “Eleven English V1” and “Eleven Turbo V2” models.

For both IPA and CMU Arpabet, it's important to include the lexical stress in multi-syllable words, as English is a lexical stress language. This means that some syllables are emphasized more than others, and the relative salience of each syllable is crucial for proper pronunciation and meaning distinctions.

For example, take the word “talon”. The correct pronunciation in CMU Arpabet would be:

<phoneme alphabet="cmu-arpabet" ph="T AE1 L AH0 N">talon</phoneme>

The first example will always be pronounced reliably with the emphasis on AE and no stress on AH. If you write it as:

<phoneme alphabet="cmu-arpabet" ph="T AE0 L AH1 N">talon</phoneme>

It will always put emphasis on AH instead of AE.

Remember, this feature only works per word. If you have a name with a first and last name that you want to be pronounced a certain way, you will have to create the pronunciation for each word individually.

tiny smelt
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If I use specific tag for a word, should the model say it ALWAYS in a the same way?

tawny doveBOT
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AI-generated Answer for vainoklement

Yes, if you use specific tags for a word, the model should pronounce it in the same way each time. This is achieved by using the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) phoneme tag. You can specify the pronunciation using either the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) or the CMU Arpabet.

For example, to specify the pronunciation of the word "actually" using IPA, you would use the following tag:

<phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="ˈæktʃuəli">actually</phoneme>

And for CMU Arpabet:

<phoneme alphabet="cmu-arpabet" ph="AE K CH UW AH L IY">actually</phoneme>

Remember to replace "your-IPA-Pronunciation-here" or "your-CMU-pronunciation-here" with the desired IPA or CMU Arpabet pronunciation.

Please note that this feature is currently only supported by the “Eleven English V1” and “Eleven Turbo V2” models. Also, it's important to include the lexical stress when writing both IPA and ARPAbet, as the relative salience of each syllable is crucial for proper pronunciation and meaning distinctions.

tiny smelt
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What could be the reason when my voice model is not pronuncing it correcrly every time?