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Update pronunciation of words in my Google Action

I have intents with responses done in Dialogflow with fulfillment enabled, and I have integrated with Google Assistant. There is a specific word "FICO" (as in FICO score) where the pronunciation is wrong when the Assistant responds. Is there a way to change the pronunciation of that specific word?

Solution

  • Instead of sending back text which will be used in text-to-speech generation, you can use the SSML <sub> tag to provide an aliased pronunciation for the word in question. So you might try something like this to see how it sounds

    <speak>
  Your <sub alias="fyeco">FICO</sub> score is
</speak>

    or fiddle with it till it sounds the way you want. The part inside the tag will be displayed, while the alias part will be spoken.

    The code for this might be something like 

    const msg = `<speak>Your <sub alias="fyeco">FICO</sub> score is ${score}.</speak>`
conv.add( msg );