How do I get the AI to pronounce my product/company name correctly?

Use pronunciation hints and a locked glossary for product names, acronyms, and brand terms.

The simplest fix is phonetic respelling inside the script. Replace "FQO.US" with "F-Q-O dot us" if you want it read as letters, or "fako us" if you want it as a single word. Most AI voice models follow the spelling you give them more reliably than they follow context cues. For brand names with non-English roots, write them as they sound to an English speaker, not as they are spelled. "Siege" reads cleaner than "Sieg" for the German word.

For acronyms, decide once whether you want them spelled out or pronounced as words, then enforce it across the deck. "SaaS" usually reads better as "sass" than as four letters. "API" reads better as three letters. AI voiceover lets you save these decisions to a glossary so the same term reads the same way in every future deck.

Three patterns that cause most pronunciation issues. Numbers next to letters, like "K8s" or "EC2", confuse most models. Spell those out as "kubernetes" or "E C two". Names ending in silent letters, like "Cointreau" or "Reading", need phonetic spelling. And homographs like "lead" the metal versus "lead" the verb need context, often solved by rewording.

If a single term still misreads after phonetic spelling, swap the voice model. Some voices handle non-English terms better than others. Test the same line in two or three voices before locking in your default.

For multilingual decks, repeat the glossary work per language. A name that reads fine in English may need a different respelling for the Spanish or German voice.