Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1206
Hey, hey Teri here with your flash briefing.
Now, I want to give you a tip today about what to do if Alexa is not pronouncing your name correctly and actually when I think back I believe this was a question from one of our community members a little while back.
And here’s what you do, there is no way to actually get Alexa to pronounce it phonetically correct, just by asking her to do that, you have to kind of use this little hack.
And basically what you do is you go into your Amazon profile, the profile that’s connected to your Alexa account, and where your name is in that profile, you change it so that you spell your name phonetically.
there is no way to actually get Alexa to pronounce it phonetically correct, just by asking her to do that
And when you do that, now, when Alexa says your name, she will use that phonetical is that a word, phonetical, phonetically correct spelling, and she should be able to pronounce it correctly.
So I hope that’s helpful for you, particularly if you have one of those names that’s just a little bit more difficult to pronounce.
Hope you’re having a wonderful Tuesday and I will talk to you again tomorrow.
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