# Voiceover pronunciation

Guide the AI to pronounce specific words correctly—especially useful for technical terms, brand names, or unique pronunciations. This feature currently supports English only.

**How to specify pronunciation:**

Wrap any word in a phoneme tag using either IPA or CMU Arpabet notation:

```
Welcome to <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="ɡaɪdˈfloʊ">Guideflow</phoneme>
```

or

```
Welcome to <phoneme alphabet="cmu-arpabet" ph="G AY1 D F L OW2">Guideflow</phoneme>
```

**Quick tips:**

* Apply pronunciation to individual words only (for full names, tag each word separately).
* Include stress markers (1 for primary, 2 for secondary, 0 for unstressed) in CMU Arpabet.
* Most common use cases: product names, technical acronyms, or industry-specific terms.

**Finding pronunciations:**

* IPA: Use online IPA dictionaries or converters.
* CMU Arpabet: Reference the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

This ensures your AI narrator pronounces critical terms exactly as your users expect to hear them.


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.guideflow.com/help/edit-your-guideflow/voiceover/synthetic-voiceover/voiceover-pronunciation.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.