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Synthesizing realistic speech is difficult largely because of the one-to-many problem in linguistics: one text string corresponds to infinitely many possible acoustic realizations. The same words can differ in pronunciation, timing, and emphasis, and speakers sometimes change them on purpose for effect. Rime’s voices choose a default realization, so you don’t have to specify one. When your use case needs a different reading, the Mist models let you adjust it at a low level:
  • Homographs: choose which pronunciation a word such as produce gets, on Mist v2 and Mist v3.
  • Custom pauses: insert a pause of an exact length in milliseconds, on Mist, Mist v2, and Mist v3.
  • Custom pronunciation: write a word’s pronunciation as phonemes in Rime’s phonetic alphabet, on Mist v1, Mist v2, and English Mist v3.