Use phonetic guides in Keynote on iPad

If you have a Chinese, Japanese or Korean keyboard set up for your Mac, iPhone or iPad, you can apply phonetic guides to words written in any language even if you don’t use any of these keyboards.

Provide a phonetic guide alongside text

Go to the Keynote app on your iPad.
Open a presentation, then select the text.
Don’t include any trailing paragraph breaks or punctuation in your selected text.
Tap Phonetics. (You may need to tap until you see the Phonetics button.)
A phonetic guide appears with the selected text.
To change the phonetic guide text, tap Guide in the Phonetic Guide list, then select other guide text, or type your own in the text field at the top.
Tap anywhere outside the phonetic guide to apply the text and close the guide.

Change or remove phonetic guide text

You can change the language of phonetic guide text or remove the text.

Go to the Keynote app on your iPad.
Open a presentation, select the word with phonetic guide text, then tap it.
Do one of the following:
- Change the guide text: In the Guide Text list, select guide text in the language you prefer.
  The phonetic options presented depend on which keyboards are set up.
- Remove the guide text: Tap Remove Guide.

If you can’t see the suggestions you’re looking for, make sure the presentation is set up to use the language you want. Tap , tap Presentation Options, tap Language & Region, tap Language, then select a language.

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Keynote User Guide for iPad

Use phonetic guides in Keynote on iPad

Provide a phonetic guide alongside text

Change or remove phonetic guide text