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Arabic Text to speech editor

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  • Updated on Aug 3, 2026
  • Published on Sep 25, 2024
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This tutorial shows you how to create a natural, human-like announcement in Arabic. You will use the prosody controls in the TTS editor to fine-tune announcements from the TTS library, for example when adding or editing static text.

All of the prosody features adjust and fine-tune the audio translation of an announcement, and most will be familiar from Microsoft Azure. If you leave the translation and pronunciation untouched, the TTS voice reads the text exactly as written, which, outside English, may not sound right. You may need to correct pronunciation, adjust intonation, change the pace of certain segments, or insert pauses.

In the editor, each prosody feature has its own color: applied text is underlined in the matching color, while breaks (pauses) and structure-editor functions appear as colored bubbles.

Note: the announcements shown here are the ones used in GateUI and BaggageUI.

Topics covered
  • TTS library tab
  • Carrier translations tab
  • Location translations tab

TUTORIAL STEPS:

A) TTS library

  1. Open the TTS library tab.
  2. Navigate the folder structure of the TTS library and select the announcement you want to modify.
  3. Select an item from the list.

 


B) Edit announcement

  1. Write, add or modify the text that TTS Voice is supposed to read.





C) Preview the announcement

  1. 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

  1. Highlight text where you want to remove prosody features.
  2. Click on the “eraser” button to remove TTS adjustments.
E) Adjust intonation

  1. Highlight text where you want to adjust the intonation.
  2. 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

  1. Place pivot points on the intonation line and move them to form the intonation curve.
  2. Click the Preview button to check the new intonation and compare it to the original using the Original button.
  3. 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

  1. Highlight text where you want to adjust the pronunciation.
  2. 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.


  1. Construct the Phoneme using available Phoneme library.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

  1. Highlight the desired part of the Arabic text.
  2. 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

  1. Click where you want to add a break (pause).
  2. Select the break type in the break section menu and confirm the setting with the "check" button.

K) Comments

  1. Click where you want to add the comment.
  2. Type your comment in the field under the Comment section and confirm it with the “check” button.
  3. 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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