Confirm the intended reading first
A product name or place name may have several plausible readings. Establish the official pronunciation and the desired delivery before changing settings. Use a fictional product such as Aoba Link in a short practice script. Record whether the issue is the word itself, its stress, the following particle or the pause around it; those problems need different interventions.
Hold the voice, model and script steady
Compare a different voice separately from a different spelling. Record the current voice and model and use a short repeatable passage. Support for Japanese does not guarantee the intended pronunciation of every proper noun. Speed and volume adjustments can change delivery without correcting the underlying reading, so identify the smallest change that could address the actual problem.
Try a spoken alternative spelling
Where ambiguous characters or an abbreviation cause the error, try a phonetic spelling in the spoken script while retaining the formal text for captions and documentation. Check the whole sentence rather than the word alone. A name may sound acceptable in isolation but change when followed by a particle or another technical term. Preserve the relationship between formal and spoken versions for later edits.
Check dictionary support for the selected route
Pronunciation dictionary support depends on the interface and model. Confirm whether the Studio or API workflow you are using can attach the dictionary. Phoneme-tag language support is not universal, and an English example is not evidence that the same technique works for Japanese. Consider an alias substitution where supported rather than assuming every phonetic alphabet is accepted by every speech model.
Track dictionary versions and affected passages
Record the original term, replacement reading, dictionary version and voice/model combination checked. A dictionary edit does not establish that already generated audio changed. Regenerate the affected passage and listen again. If a shared dictionary is used by other scripts, check whether the same term appears there before accepting a change that may alter an unrelated pronunciation.
Review the word, paragraph and final sequence
Check a short sentence containing the term, its surrounding paragraph and the assembled output. Listen for unnatural transitions and substitutions applied to unintended words. Include adjacent numbers or units in the review. Keep revision filenames distinct and identify the accepted version explicitly so an older download is not accidentally delivered after a successful correction.
Set a revision budget and an alternative route
Regenerate the smallest contextual section instead of the entire production each time. If repeated attempts do not improve it, compare another voice, a rewritten sentence or a human recording. Decide which names require an approved reading before publication and record trial usage separately from final duration. This is a method for checking pronunciation, not a measured model success rate or a claim that the example was generated.
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