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    Modify TTS announcement from library

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    Our Simpleway CX solution comes with a TTS tool which enables you to have neat announcements in no time. In this tutorial 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 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.

    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

    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. 

    Tip! For additional info regarding phonemes visit IPA website.



    I) 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. 
    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.

    Note: Your comments will not be visible to the end user. You can leave comments for the Simpleway team and your colleagues.
    L) Click the Save button when done with the announcement adjustments.
    Now your modified announcement is ready to use.


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