In this tutorial we would like you to show how to have a neat announcement in Arabic language.
We will describe how to use the prosody functions in the TTS editor for announcements created on the TTS library tab when you for example want to add or modify some static text.
All of theprosody featuresin the TTS editorare for adjusting and fine-tuning the audio translation of the announcement; you know most of them from Microsoft Azure. If you don't edit the translation or pronunciation, TTS Voice will read everything as is, and, except in English, it may not sound right. The pronunciation of words may not be sufficientand more fine-tuning could be required using other prosody features. You may want also adjust the intonation in certain cases or increase or decrease the speed of particular announcement segments, insert pauses etc.
Each prosody feature is represented in the TTS Editor by a different color. When you apply these features to selected text that is part of an audio translation, the text is underlined with the color corresponding to the applied feature. In contrast, the breaks (pauses)and structure editor functions are displayed as bubbles of a specific color.
Note: The announcements you see here are used in GateUI and BaggageUI.
Topics covered
TTS library tab
Carrier translations tab
Location translations tab
TUTORIAL STEPS:
A)TTS library
Open the TTS library tab.
Navigate the folder structure of the TTS library and select the announcement you want to modify.
Select an item from the list.
B) Edit announcement
Write, add or modify the text that TTS Voice is supposed to read.
C) Preview the announcement
Click the Start preview button to verify the correct TTS pronunciation.
Note: Only demonstration variable values are used during the preview of announcements, because the real values of the variables are obtained when announcements are triggered.
D) Removing prosody features
Highlight text where you want to remove prosody features.
Click on the “eraser” button to remove TTS adjustments.
E) Adjust intonation
Highlight text where you want to adjust the intonation.
Click the pencil button or the intonation preview picture.
Note: Have in mind that the intonation may sound different in the selection than in the announcement as a whole.
We recommend adjusting the intonation part by part and not the whole announcement at once.
F) Edit intonation
Place pivot points on the intonation line and move them to form the intonation curve.
Click the Preview button to check the new intonation and compare it to the original using the Original button.
Click on the Done button.
Note: To remove pivot points, select them and then click the “trash can” icon. The intonation curve will automatically readjust.
G) Adjust pronunciation
Highlight text where you want to adjust the pronunciation.
Click on the pencil button in the Pronunciation section. A new Edit phoneme window opens.
Note: You can also select a Reading rule such as SPELL for gates, flight codes, flight numbers and similar.
H) Edit phoneme
Use the available phonemes in the Edit phoneme window instead of typing them yourself, since many of the characters may only look like comas, quotation marks, colons, etc., but they are not.
Construct the Phoneme using available Phoneme library.
Click the Start Preview button to check the new pronunciation. For comparison, you can also press the Original button to hear the TTS without pronunciation correction.
Click the Done button. Pronunciation-corrected text is now underlined in orange.
Note: You can rewrite any word using Phonemes but remember that every language has its own phonemes e.g., in Spanish, you don't have all the phonemes to rewrite every English word. However, you can copy the non existing phonemes from English to Spanish.Validation check is applied for unknown characters in the "Phoneme" field for any specific language, and the user is notified by a pop-up message.
Tip! For additional info regarding phonemes visit IPA website.
I) Adjust rate, pitch and volume
Highlight the desired part of the Arabic text.
Adjust the rate, pitch and volume by clicking on the up and down buttons in the corresponding sections or by writing the number manually and confirming the adjustment by clicking on the "check" button.
J)Break
Click where you want to add a break (pause).
Select the break type in the break section menu and confirm the setting with the "check" button.
K) Comments
Click where you want to add the comment.
Type your comment in the field under the Comment section and confirm it with the “check” button.
Click the Save button when done with the announcement adjustments. Now your modified announcement is ready to use.
Note: Your comments will not be visible to the end user. You can leave comments for the Simpleway team and your colleagues.
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