---
title: Day 10
author: Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats
date: 2022-05-28 09:00
tags: VoiceOver, accessibilitySpeechIPANotation, iOS
categories: ["Accessibility"]
series: ["365 Days iOS Accessibility"]
image: /Images/365DaysIOSAccessibility/image184.jpg
---

accessibilitySpeechIPANotation is useful for indicating how foreign words are pronounced. It really annoys me to hear the word paella constantly mispronounced 😁. You could also specify language, but this way, VoiceOver won't change its voice.

![Example, with a drawing of the paella emoji, shows how you can specify the correct pronunciation for the text “paella” using the IPA notation. The code sets an accessibilityAttributeLabel to the UILabel with the string and a dictionary containing the accessibilitySpeechIPANotation attribute key and the “pɑːˈeɪə” value.](/Images/365DaysIOSAccessibility/image184.jpg)

[Example code in the image:](https://gist.github.com/dadederk/990c3040eba5a560c4e4b64a65925a35)

```swift
let recipeNameLabel = UILabel()
let attributedLabel = NSAttributedString(
    string: "Paella",
    attributes: [.accessibilitySpeechIPANotation: "pɑːˈeɪə"]
)

recipeNameLabel.accessibilityAttributedLabel = attributedLabel
```