Sometimes the AI won&#8217;t say things the way you like. Like it&#8217;s pronouncing your client&#8217;s brand name wrong. Yikes! The AI will get better over time, but you got a project due tomorrow. What should you do?



Do not fret, the Pronunciation Editor is here!



Pronunciation Editor is designed for you to teach the AI how to properly pronounce a certain word. 



Often times, the AI will work much better if you spell out the word as it sounds. 



For example, &#8220;LOVO&#8221; sounds better if you spell it out to be &#8220;Lovoe&#8221;.



You can directly make this change in the text block editor, but you can also use the Pronunciation Editor to automatically apply this change to all the text blocks. Let&#8217;s find out how. First, open the Pronunciation Editor panel on the left.



Enter the source word. In our case, that&#8217;s &#8220;LOVO&#8221;.



Next, enter the target word. That&#8217;s &#8220;Lovoe&#8221; for us. Press + button and it&#8217;s done!



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Next, go to the text blocks that have the word &#8220;LOVO&#8221; and generate again to apply the changes. Any time you type &#8220;LOVO&#8221; from here on now will be generated to &#8220;Lovoe&#8221;



 Using this very simple trick, you can teach the AI to pronounce accurately!

Using the pronunciation editor

You can add emphasis to individual words to add more energy and deliverability to your voiceover. After all, a sentence can mean very different thing depending on what word is emphasized.







Click the emphasis button on the left.



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Next, click on the words that you want to emphasize. Then click Done.



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That was easy.

Adding emphasis to words

In a real life studio with real human voice actors, the producer would guide the actor with every subtle detail. 



In Genny, you also have the ability to finetune and control pitch at the phoneme level (or the smallest building block of spoken word). This will allow you to generate voiceover in the perfect intonation that you imagined it to be.







First, in your workspace, click Default pitch button on the upper left hand corner of each text block as shown below in red rectangle.



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Next, click customize, and the Pitch Control panel will pop up. Here, you can change pitch of each individual phoneme. You can also see what word the phoneme corresponds to at the bottom of the window. Once you are done adjusting, click convert. The audio will now be updated with the modified pitch information. Click the play button to listen to how it sounds.



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 You can use the smooth mode for a more natural pitch modulation. Smooth mode modifies the neighboring phonemes together so that the pitch flows more naturally. Once you are done editing, click Apply, and the pitch settings will be applied to the text block. If you wish to modify the pitch again, click the green area of the text block.



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 If you wish to get rid of the pitch changes, or want to make changes to the script, click &#8220;Pitch Customized&#8221; on the upper left hand corner of the text block and select &#8220;Default Pitch&#8221;.

Control pitch with Producer Mode

Adjusting speed and pauses is easy in Genny. Follow the step by step guides below!







<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Changing speed</h3>



You can change speed of the text block by clicking on the Speed icon on the top of the text block.



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You can also change speed of all the text blocks in the workspace by clicking on the speed icon on the leftmost panel of the screen.



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Adding pauses</h3>



You can add pauses in between words, or in between sentences.



Click the pause icon on the left hand panel (looks like a stopwatch).



Then, to put a pause after a word, click a word and select the pause duration.



To put a pause after a sentence, click the last word of the sentence and select the pause duration.



After you are done adding pauses, click &#8220;Done&#8221; on the top banner.



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Adjusting speed and pauses

Numbers might be tricky with TTS systems. Say you wrote 1979. Did you mean the year nineteen seventy nine, or did you mean the number one thousand nine hundred seventy nine?



The TTS system has no way of knowing perfectly. It will guess to the best of its abilities from the context, but it will get it wrong at times.







Therefore, for numbers, if you are facing an issue, the best practice is to write it out into English.







Phone numbers



958-2910-2992 =>nine five eight, two nine one zero, two nine nine two







Date



10/29/1992 => October twenty ninth, nineteen ninety two



1990s => nineteen nineties



80s => eighties







Time



9:10 AM => Nine ten A M







Decimals



69.39 => sixty nine point three nine

Getting numbers correct

In most cases, Genny will pronounce acronyms letter by letter.



For example, YMCA will be pronounced Y Em See Ae







If you want the acronym to be read as is, like SWAT or POTUS, you need to spell it out in lower case letters like swat and potus.

Acronyms

Sometimes the AI might speak in a weird way at the end of the sentence, or pronounce some words oddly. When faced with this issue, here is what you can do. 



Problem 1: Sentence ends with an upward inflection



Try regenerating the block. Sometimes it takes a couple takes to get the good inflection at the end.



Also try changing the punctuation. Try changing it to an exclamation mark from a period for example.







Problem2: The last &#8216;s&#8217; is not pronounced.



Sometimes, words that end in &#8216;ies&#8217;, such as &#8216;twenties&#8217;, have trouble pronouncing the last &#8216;s&#8217;. Try respelling the &#8216;ies&#8217; to &#8216;ees&#8217;, like &#8216;twentees&#8217;, and the AI will do a much better job.







Problem 3: Some words are pronounced weirdly.



First solution to try is to regenerate the text block.



If it still does not work, use the pronunciation editor. Here is a <a href="https://lovo.ai/tutorials/creating-a-more-natural-voiceover/using-the-pronunciation-editor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">guide</a> on how to use it.







Problem 4: Sometimes, the inflections are weird.



Again, first solution is to try regenerating the block.



Next, try and use the <a href="https://lovo.ai/tutorials/creating-a-more-natural-voiceover/adding-emphasis-to-words" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">emphasis</a> function. This adds emphasis to words and makes the sentence flow more naturally.



You can also try adding commas or changing the punctuation to see if it sounds better.



Finally, you can use the <a href="https://lovo.ai/tutorials/creating-a-more-natural-voiceover/control-pitch-with-producer-mode">producer </a><a href="https://lovo.ai/tutorials/creating-a-more-natural-voiceover/control-pitch-with-producer-mode" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mode</a> to adjust the pitch for each word.

What to do when your voiceover sounds weird.

Beta voices are magical. They produce near-human level quality voices with natural inflections and filled with emotions that fit the context. However, there are some pointers that you need to know in order to bring out the best performance from Beta Voices. While Beta voices provide much higher performance than regular premium voices, they are after all still in &#8220;Beta&#8221;.







<h4 class="wp-block-heading">1. Beta voices work best in longer sentences.</h4>



Compared to shorter sentences, Beta voices work better with longer sentences. It also works better when there are multiple sentences in the same text block.







<h4 class="wp-block-heading">2. How to work around the awful &#8220;repetition&#8221; bug</h4>



The Beta voices sometimes have a glitch that makes it repeat phrases that&#8217;s not in the script. Here is what to do: Simply regenerate a few times. When you regenerate, the AI speaks in a slightly different style, and the repeated phrase should be gone. Regenerating with the same text will not cost you extra credits.







<h4 class="wp-block-heading">3. How to work around the &#8220;premature ending&#8221; bug</h4>



Sometimes you will notice that the audio generated cuts off prematurely, so that either the last consonant isn&#8217;t pronounced, or the resonance of the last word isn&#8217;t naturally long enough. Here is what to do: Try adding a hyphen before the punctuation mark at the end. This tricks the AI into reading out the last word with more resonance at the end. Another method is to simply regenerate a few times. Regenerating with the same text will not cost you extra credits.







<h4 class="wp-block-heading">4. Regeneration is your friend</h4>



I already mentioned this, but the beta voices speak slightly differently every time you regenerate. If you aren&#8217;t happy with what was produced, press the generate button again! You will get a slightly different variation reading of the same script, WITHOUT using additional generation credits.







Hope these tips keep you going on your creative journey. Happy creating!