microsoft tts reads english wierd when its set to hebrew.

Paz Elisha 20

when the hebrew tts reads a sentence with seperated english letters it reads it weird.

for example : "השם שלך הוא P A Z" doesn't say the letter "P", "A", "Z", instead it pronounces the sound of the letter. how can i make it say the letter itself ?

I tried commas, semicolon, dots and spaces but it still doesn't work. any tip ?

santoshkc 10,150 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-11-18T15:08:44.4466667+00:00
Hi @Paz Elisha,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A forum!

When Hebrew TTS reads a sentence with separated English letters, it might pronounce the letters using Hebrew phonetics instead of their English names. To resolve this, you can use SSML to assign an English voice specifically for the English letters.

I reproed the scenario, and by selecting "P A Z" and assigning an English voice (e.g., en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural) to those letters, it will pronounce them correctly as "Pee," "Ay," "Zee." This approach can be used for any English word or letters within a Hebrew sentence.

Here's the SSML code to achieve this:

<voice name="he-IL-HilaNeural">השם שלך הוא </voice> <voice name="en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural">P A Z</voice>

Using this method, Hebrew TTS reads the Hebrew parts naturally while correctly pronouncing the English letters. I hope this helps. Thank you.
santoshkc 10,150 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-11-19T13:35:46.71+00:00

Hi @Paz Elisha,

Following up to see if the given response was helpful. Thank you.
Paz Elisha 20 Reputation points

2024-11-19T13:44:44.1433333+00:00

this is not a good solution because the voices are different. such thing cannot exist in production
Paz Elisha 20 Reputation points

2024-11-20T08:45:35.2266667+00:00

@santoshkc thank you for your response, thats what i settled on in the end.
santoshkc 10,150 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-11-21T14:27:24.68+00:00

Hi @Paz Elisha,

You're welcome! I'm glad you were able to find a solution that works for your needs. And thanks for sharing the information, which might be beneficial to other community members reading this thread as solution. Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others ", so I'll convert the previous response to an answer in case you'd like to accept the answer. This will help other users who may have a similar query find the solution more easily. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to ask. We're always here to help.

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santoshkc 10,150 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-11-20T08:28:41.7133333+00:00

Hi @Paz Elisha,

Thank you for your follow up query.

To ensure Hebrew TTS pronounces English letters correctly without switching voices, you can use SSML phonemes to specify how each letter should sound, keeping the same Hebrew voice. For example, <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="piː">P</phoneme> ensures "P" is pronounced as "Pee." Alternatively, you can use pauses between letters with <break> tags or adjust the speech rate using <prosody> to emphasize each letter. If these approaches don't fully meet production quality, consider training a custom neural voice or post-processing the audio for seamless output.

I hope you understand! Thank you.
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