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title: "Correct Destination and Carrier Pronunciation – Airport CX"
slug: "change-location-pronunciation-air"
description: "Edit phonemes and prosody so destination and airline names are read correctly in every announcement language."
updated: 2024-11-15T08:36:57Z
published: 2024-11-15T08:36:57Z
canonical: "docs.simpleway.cloud/change-location-pronunciation-air"
---

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# Change location pronunciation

When adding a **new** location (destination) or carrier on the *Locations* or *Carriers* tabs, always make sure it is pronounced correctly in **all languages**.

The *Location translations* and *Carrier translations* tabs allow you to edit the translation of the "**Name**" column on the *Locations* and *Carriers* tabs, and to adjust the **Pronunciation**, **Rate**, **Pitch**, **Intonation** and **Volume** of the audio translation in the TTS editor.

The list of locations on the *Locations* tab corresponds to the list on the *Location translations* tab, and the list of carriers on the *Carriers* tab corresponds to the list on the *Carrier translations* tab.

All of the **prosody features** in the TTS editor **are 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 sufficient for some languages and 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**.

In this tutorial we will describe how to use the prosody functions in the TTS editor to correct audio translations of locations in *Location translations* tab, which also applies to audio translations of carriers listed in the *Carrier translations* tab.

Topics covered

- Location translations tab,
- Carrier translations tab,
- TTS editor - prosody features

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**TUTORIAL STEPS:**

| A) **Location translations tab** 1. Open the *Location translations* tab. 2. Select the item you want to edit. **Note**: By default, the location translations list is sorted in the descending order by the *CODE* column. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide1(158).JPG) |
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| B) **Edit Location translations** 1. Enter the text translation of the location for all available languages if required. 2. Click the pencil button to edit the audio translation and adjust the voice for a particular destination variable. A new TTS editor window opens. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide2(119).JPG) **Note:** There are 3 possible variants of DESTINATION variable. All of them should be filled according to the language: - **destination** - destination is used in nominative without any prepositions - **destination_from** - is always written with the preposition "from" = *"from Dubai"*, Spanish variant *"procedente de Dubai"* - **destination_to** - is always written with the preposition "to" *= "to Dubai",* Spanish variant *"con destino a Dubai".* |
| C) **TTS** **editor** 1. Write the text that TTS Voice is supposed to read. 2. Click *Start Preview* button to verify the correct TTS pronunciation. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide3(107).JPG) |
| D) **Adjust** ****pronunciation**** 1. Select/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. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide4(82).JPG) |
| E) **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. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide5(80).JPG) **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](https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/).V |
| F) **Adjust i****ntonation** 1. Select/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. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide6(67).JPG) |
| G) **Edit** **i****ntonation** 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 intonation using the *Original* button. 3. Click on the *Done* button. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide7(58).JPG) |
| H) **Adjust rate, pitch and volume** 1. Highlight the desired part of the 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. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide8(53).JPG) |
| I) **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. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide9(31).JPG) |
| J) **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. **Note**: Your comments will not be visible to the end user. You can leave comments for the Simpleway team and your colleagues. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide10(30).JPG) |
| K) **After you have created all audio translations** 1. Create audio translations for all destination variables in all available languages if required. 2. Click the *Save* button. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a3e67867-6316-451b-94ad-ec727ac9102a/Images/Documentation/Slide12(10).JPG) |