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When rules are generated for you rather than typed by hand, some are obvious and some are a judgement call. Rather than presenting them all as equally certain, LatentCast marks the ones worth a human ear and tells you why. Working through that list is the fastest quality win available in the whole product.

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What a flag means

A rule marked needs review carries a short analysis note explaining the doubt: an unusual spelling, a name that could be read two ways, a term the system’s own checks disagreed about. It is a request for your attention, not a claim that the rule is wrong.

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Working through the list

1

Filter to what needs you

The rules list filters by review state and by issue. Set it to show only what needs review and you have your working list.
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Read the note, then listen

The note tells you what the doubt is. The play buttons tell you whether it matters. Judge with your ears, not with the spelling.
3

Accept or correct

If it sounds right, mark it reviewed. If it does not, fix the say-as. Editing a rule counts as reviewing it, so there is no second step after a correction.
The header counts what is left, so you can see the list shrink.

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Also worth filtering for

Beyond the review state, the list can show you the rules with structural problems:
  • Shadowed — a rule that will not be heard because another dictionary defines the same term. Either delete it or disable the competing dictionary.
  • Duplicates — the same term defined more than once.
  • Engine default — rules deliberately not sent to a particular engine, which is useful when checking that an override you set is still what you intended.

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How to judge a name

  • Say it out loud yourself first, then play the rule. Comparing two sounds is easier than evaluating one.
  • Prefer the pronunciation the person or company uses, not the one their spelling suggests. If you are unsure, their own website or a video of their team usually settles it.
  • Test in the language it will be spoken in. A name inside a Dutch sentence and the same name inside an English one are two different problems.
  • A term that is only ever written, never spoken, needs no rule. Skip it.

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Newly generated dictionaries start switched off

A dictionary produced by the generation run arrives disabled. That is on purpose: nothing reaches a customer’s video until a person has looked at it and enabled it.

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Building a dictionary from your list

Where flagged rules usually come from.

Pronunciation dictionaries

Rules, notations and per-engine overrides.