How to customise VoiceOver pronunciations on your iPhone or iPad

Find out how to change the way VoiceOver pronounces certain words or phrases, such as your name, city and more.

Add a pronunciation

1. In Settings, go to Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech > Pronunciations.

2. Tap the Add button.

3. In the Phrase field, enter the word or phrase you want to customise.

   

4. In the Substitution field, you can either:

   • Spell out how you want the phrase to be pronounced.

   • Or you can tap the Dictate Replacement buttonto say the phrase the way you'd like it pronounced.* Tap each suggestion to play it, then tap Done when you've chosen the one you want to use.

5. Choose which languages this pronunciation will apply to, the voice that it will play in, whether to ignore capitalised letters in the word and which apps this pronunciation will apply to.

6. Tap Play to play back your pronunciation. Then tap Back when you've finished to save it.

Delete a pronunciation

1. In Settings, go to Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech > Pronunciations.

2. Tap Edit.

3. Tap the Delete button next to the pronunciation that you want to delete, and tap Delete.