How to fix one word the voiceover pronounced wrong
Give Vizard Agent the timestamp and say which reading of the word you meant. It tests respellings until a take says it correctly, listens back to choose between them, rebuilds only that section of the narration, and confirms the captions still show the ordinary spelling rather than the phonetic one.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Name the sound, not the letters. A note that says "it should be pronounced live" reads identically to the thing that just went wrong, so give the distinguishing feature: the vowel, or a word that rhymes with it. Add roughly when it happens, and a second either way is fine.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
English has words that are spelled once and said two ways, such as live, read, lead, bow and wind. A voice takes its cue from the letters, so the reliable lever is to change the letters it reads while leaving the letters the viewer sees alone. In the session behind this article it:
- Took a narrated film where one word in the closing line came back with the wrong vowel, and tested spellings that forced the reading the user asked for.
- Listened back to the candidate takes to hear which one said it right.
- Got word timings for the corrected section and rebuilt the narration with the fixed word in place.
- Finalised the narration and the subtitles together and rendered the corrected cuts in every format that was delivered.
- Verified the pronunciation in the final render rather than the script, because a section that fails to rebuild leaves the previous take in place.
- Checked the captions on screen still showed the ordinary spelling, so the respelling did not leak into the subtitles.
When does this not work well?
Some words resist respelling, and some are not pronunciation problems at all. A name from another language, a technical term, or a word whose stress rather than vowel is wrong may need a different approach than a phonetic hint, and unusual names may need a recorded reference. Rebuilding a word in the middle of a fast line may also shift the timing.
Common questions
Does the whole narration get regenerated? No. Vizard Agent rebuilds the section around the word.
Will the subtitles show the respelling? No. Vizard Agent keeps the screen spelling correct.
How do I know it is fixed? Vizard Agent verifies the word in the finished render.