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Where: Personalization ▸ Canvases, then Generate pronunciation dictionaries on a canvas Typing a rule per company for four hundred recipients is not work anyone should do. This run reads the names in your recipient list, works out which ones are likely to be said wrong, and writes the rules for you.
This is an organization administrator’s task. If the action is not offered to you, ask whoever administers your LatentCast organization.

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The run, end to end

1

Set the parameters

Which rows to read, the language the names will be spoken in, how many terms to put in each dictionary, and a base name for the dictionaries that come out.
2

Analyse

Press Analyze pronunciation risk. The run reads the names, judges each one, and proposes a say-as where it thinks one is needed. Progress is shown, you can leave the page and come back, and you can cancel.
3

Read the decisions

Every term appears in a table with what was decided and why:
4

Create the dictionaries

The dictionaries are created switched off, so nothing reaches a video before someone has looked. A link takes you straight into the new dictionaries in the voice studio.
5

Review, then enable

Work through the flagged terms, listen to them, then enable the dictionary. See Reviewing flagged terms.

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Choosing the language

The language you choose is the language the names will be spoken in, which is not the same as where the company is from. A Finnish company name inside an English script needs the English run. If you send in several languages, run it once per language.

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The audit

Every run keeps a record, and Download the audit gives you the whole decision table as a spreadsheet: every term, what was decided, and the reasoning. Two good uses. Send it to a native speaker in that market and have them mark the ones you got wrong. And keep it, so that in three months you can answer why a particular name is pronounced the way it is. Past runs stay listed with their audits, so you can compare a re-run against the last one.

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When to re-run

  • You added a batch of new accounts to the list.
  • You moved into a new market and are sending in a new language.
  • A colleague reported a name being said wrong and you would rather re-check the whole list than patch one rule.
Re-running does not silently overwrite what you reviewed. New dictionaries arrive alongside, off, and waiting for you.

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Next

Reviewing flagged terms

The next step after every run.

Pronunciation dictionaries

How a rule works, and how to write one by hand.