I googled for a way to set a phonetic name for entities and devices this morning, and I found an old post I had made in the Feature Requests forum back in 2019!
Is there an official way to do this now that voice is so much more front-and-center in Home Assistant? I’m tired of every voice assistant pronouncing things incorrectly.
Are not aliases for refering to a device or entity by multiple names? This is not what I am asking for.
I just want the voice assistant to pronounce the existing name the way I want it to. It’s more of a Text-to-Speech problem than an Assistant problem.
Ah sorry, misunderstood your request. You essentially want the Alias equivalent of the friendly name (which your TTS uses) so that it’s pronounced correctly.
I honestly don’t see it as a problem outside non-English speaking languages, but your request is still valid if you set the friendly name and it’s being mispronounced.
You got it. Sometimes the Text-to-Speech just doesn’t get things right. Everything I have is an English name (I’m Canadian), but still, it’s not always correct. I think every entity or device should have an optional “Phonetic Name” attribute to tell the Text-to-Speech services how to pronounce it.
How the friendly name is spelled and how that spelling is prounced don’t always make sense to the TTS services.