Few things break a song faster than a wrong word. A name sung with the wrong stress, a Hindi word that comes out as English, or a line that turns into mumbling halfway through. The cause is usually in the input, which means you can fix it.
Here are the causes in the order to check them, and how to fix the last stubborn lines without paying for a whole new song.
First check: the language picker
The language picker tells Autunes which language to sing in, and it defaults to Hindi. If you paste Tamil, Bengali or English lyrics and leave it on Hindi, words will be sung with the wrong sounds. This is the single most common cause, and the easiest to fix.
If your description names an Indian language, such as 'a Marathi lavani', the picker switches to it automatically until you choose something yourself; your choice in the picker always wins. For mixed-language songs, set the picker to the language most of the lines are in.
A few languages, including Kannada, Malayalam and Haryanvi, appear in the picker on Pro and Creator, which have the Zori5.5 XL engine.
Roman spelling is ambiguous
Writing Hindi or Punjabi in Roman script works, but Roman spelling drops information the native script keeps: vowel length, aspiration and nukta sounds. 'Bala' and 'bhala' are different words; 'sher' (lion) and 'shair' (poet) are easy to misspell into each other; 'jara' and 'zara' sound different. In Devanagari, बला, भला, शेर, शायर and ज़रा are unambiguous.
You do not have to switch the whole song. If one word keeps coming out wrong, write just that word in native script, or respell it the way it sounds: 'mohabbat' rather than 'mohbt', 'zindagi' rather than 'zndgi'. Keep nukta dots and matras when you write in Devanagari; they change the word.
- Before: 'Tu mera dil, tu meri jaan, tujhe dekhu to ho jau hairan'. After: 'तू मेरा दिल, तू मेरी जान / तुझे देखूँ तो हो जाऊँ हैरान'.
- Before: 'Sajna ve mainu chad k na ja'. After: 'Sajna ve, mainu chhad ke na ja', or in Gurmukhi: 'ਸੱਜਣਾ ਵੇ, ਮੈਨੂੰ ਛੱਡ ਕੇ ਨਾ ਜਾ'.
Numbers, short forms and English words
Digits and abbreviations have no single spoken form. Is '2' do, two or tu? Is 'BF' bee-eff or boyfriend? Write everything the way it should be sung.
- Write numbers as words: 'do din', 'saat janam', 'twenty-one'.
- Spell out short forms: 'DJ wale babu' is fine because it is said as letters, but write 'boyfriend', not 'BF'.
- Drop chat spellings: 'ke', not 'k'; 'you', not 'u'; 'kyun', not 'q'.
- English brand names or loanwords inside a Hindi line can stay in Roman; if one is sung strangely, try writing it in Devanagari as it sounds, such as पार्टी for party.
Lines that are too long to sing
When a line has more syllables than the melody has room for, words get squeezed together and swallowed. That often sounds like mispronunciation but is really cramming. Break long lines in two and keep lines within a section roughly even.
Before: 'Har subah teri yaadon ke saath main uthta hoon aur har shaam tujhe dhoondhta hoon'. After: 'Har subah / teri yaad ke saath / har shaam / bas teri talaash'.
Also keep notes and translations out of the lyrics box. A translation in brackets after a Hindi line will be sung too, and the switch between languages mid-line often comes out garbled.
Generate again before you rewrite
Each take is sung fresh, so a word that slipped once is often fine on the next take with no change at all. Before rewriting lyrics that look correct, try a variation (5 credits, one included on the Free plan). On Pro you get up to 2 takes per generation and on Creator up to 3, which makes it easy to compare.
The engine matters too. Zori5.5 XL (15 credits) gives richer, more detailed vocals than Zori5 Turbo (10 credits). Free accounts get XL when they paste their own lyrics.
Fix one line without remaking the song
Every finished vocal is transcribed and checked against your lyrics, and lines that came out wrong are flagged in the song editor. On Pro and Creator you can fix them in place.
- Edit section, 3 credits: select a line and have just that part re-sung. You can correct the spelling at the same time.
- Auto-fix pronunciation, 10 credits: Autunes listens, finds the lines sung wrong, and re-records them on the same melody, then checks them again.
- Pick up to 5 lines yourself if you can hear a problem the check did not flag.
- If auto-fix finds no lines off, or so much of the song is wrong that a new take is the better fix, it refunds the credits.
A pronunciation checklist
Run through this before you generate.
- Language picker matches the lyrics.
- Tricky words spelled as they sound, or written in native script.
- No digits, chat shortcuts or unexplained abbreviations.
- Lines short enough to sing in one breath.
- No translations, notes or speaker names in the lyrics box.