Although the quality of speech synthesis is constantly improving, pronunciation of words or phrases is not always satisfactory, especially for unfamiliar proper names, date formats, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. ReadSpeaker’s team of linguists can provide pronunciation corrections as a service to our customers. With the use of general and customer specific dictionaries, our linguists can correct mispronunciations and misinterpretations. Compare the different pronunciation of the words in the list below by clicking on the two Listen buttons.
Listen to the following words with no pronunciation rules applied:
- tomato
- WWF
- 280 km / h
- No. VI
- 50 - 60%
- 6/7 -96
Now listen to the same words again, this time with pronunciation rules applied: