Customizing Mist v2
Custom Pronunciation
For uncommon words, such as unique brand names or product names, Rime’s speech synthesis model may not always pronounce them correctly out of the box.
While the Rime team can add new words to the dictionary within around 24 hours, if you want to specify the pronunciation yourself, you can input a custom pronunciation string within curly brackets.
Tools exist both to check the dictionary coverage and to generate a custom pronunciation string.
Custom pronunciations use Rime’s phonetic alphabet (detailed below), which is inspired by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For example the word
When you click GENERATE, you’ll send your recording to Rime’s proprietary pronunciation model, which will return a pronunciation string using Rime’s phonetic alphabet. You can then listen to the word spoken by any of Rime’s voices and make any edits to the generated pronunciation.
custom would be represented as {k1Ast0xm}. This even works for made-up words, like gorbulets, which would be {g1orby0ul2Ets}.
| Audio Clip | Sentence |
|---|---|
actually, {g1orby0ul2Ets} is a word i just made up. |
Note: When making an API request, you must setphonemizeBetweenBracketstotrue. The request would look like this:
Custom Pronunciation Example
Check Coverage
The Coverage tool is available in the Rime dashboard: rime.ai/dashboard/coverage. You can also check coverage via the API. You can check to see if any word or list of words is included in the Rime dictionary before generating a custom pronunciation.
Get Pronunciation
The Pronunciation tool is available in the Rime dashboard: rime.ai/dashboard/pronunciation. To generate a custom pronunciation, all you have to do is spell and record yourself speaking the word, then click GENERATE.
When you click GENERATE, you’ll send your recording to Rime’s proprietary pronunciation model, which will return a pronunciation string using Rime’s phonetic alphabet. You can then listen to the word spoken by any of Rime’s voices and make any edits to the generated pronunciation.
Rime’s Phonetic Alphabet
Below is a guide to Rime’s phonetic alphabet and how to input syllabic stress.Vowels
| symbol | use in an english word |
|---|---|
| @ | bat |
| a | hot |
| A | butt |
| W | about |
| x | comma |
| Y | bite |
| E | bet |
| R | bird, foreword |
| e | bait |
| I | bit |
| i | beat |
| o | boat |
| O | boy |
| U | book |
| u | boot |
| N | button |
Consonants
| symbol | use in an english word |
|---|---|
| b | buy |
| C | China |
| d | die |
| D | thy |
| f | fight |
| g | guy |
| h | high |
| J | jive |
| k | kite |
| l | lie |
| m | my |
| n | nigh |
| G | sing |
| p | pie |
| r | rye |
| s | sigh |
| S | shy |
| t | tie |
| T | thigh |
| v | vie |
| w | wise |
| y | yacht |
| z | zoo |
| Z | pleasure |
Stress
For primary stress, put 1 before the relevant vowel. For example,comma would be {k1am0x}
For seconadary stress, put 2 in front of the relevant vowel. For example, auctioneer would be {2akS0In1ir}
All other vowels shoud have a 0 in front of them.