Programming an Alternate Pronunciation of a Word
Sometimes a word has two different pronunciations. For instance, the word "record" can be pronounced as it is in this sentence, "We kept a RECord of how many people attended the museum opening." The word can also be pronounced as it is in this sentence, "Our speech teacher let us reCORD our voices on a tape recorder."
The way a word is most often spoken is the way your device will pronounce the word. In this case, if you type "record" it is pronounced "RECord." If you want the alternate pronunciation for the word, first activate the CTRL key and then the SPACE key. Type the word all in lower case and add a space after it.
If you store a word using CTRL SPACE, every time you retrieve that word your device will speak the alternate pronunciation of the word.
Note: We recommend that you do not store alternate pronunciations in the Dictionary, since they have the less frequently used pronunciations of words.
The page below contains a list of words that have alternate pronunciations which DECtalk speech already knows.
