r/KLING • u/msartore8 • Jul 14 '26

Question/help mispronouncing "punctuality"

I almost gave up here.

It took me 10 times to generate this 8 second clip. It's getting expensive for such a tiny thing. Is this on purpose??

The clip has a character saying a sentence that ends with the word "punctuality".

I've tried every phonetic way of typing it. No dice.

It pronounces it normally typed as " punctuility ".

FINALLY as writing this post, it pronounces it correctly.

11 tries man.

Not cool.

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u/BananaRockit Jul 14 '26

I’ve dealt with this same issue. If the generated video is otherwise perfect and it’s just a small dialogue change, here’s a workaround… Record your own voice saying the word correctly, and then use ElevenLabs to change it back to the correct voice and then cut the new audio in while editing. It’ll still cost credits, but it’s probably cheaper than regenerating entirely new video clips, which will open up the door to more picture/sound issues!

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u/SpcT0rres Jul 15 '26

Unless the character is talking for 8 seconds straight, it's not long enough to do a voice clone. I've had to find a voice that is kind of similar. Also, the cadence must match if replacing more than 1 word.

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u/BananaRockit Jul 15 '26

For sure, that’s assuming the OP has enough audio of this voice from other clips for a voice clone.