An interactive pronunciation tool is in development where you can enter a word, see how it is broken up and hear how it is pronounced. Public testing is planned for December 2025. For more information or to take part please email us.
What is ReoRite?
Reo Rite is a pronunciation and segmentation framework built to support accurate and respectful synthesis of te reo Māori in neural voice systems.
It uses a phonotactic-aware logic algorithm to help computers and people speak Māori the right way.
Try the the demo
Choose a demo word from the list below to see how the segmentation framework breaks words down into easy to pronounce parts.
English assist help: Use the bolded part of each English word to match the sound in the Māori word.
This website is an early release for demontration purposes and is under development, results are subject to change.
This word was broken up using the Reo Rite Segmentation Algorithm, learn more about the framework from the Wiki
Notes & Limitations
TTS model quirks: Some sounds like /r/ or /ɸ/ (wh) still rely on near-English stand-ins. These will improve with model-level training and future revisions.
Macron support: Long vowels are included in IPA but not all TTS engines honour macron length. This is under active review.
Rolled R: Where appropriate, a rolled /r/ is suggested in the output and noted with hover cues. This remains hard for TTS engines to synthesize.
Audio playback: Only one pronunciation can be played at a time to avoid overlap.
Regional variants: The system currently reflects standard Māori. Dialectal toggles are planned once corpus data becomes available.
Complex phrases: The system is being extended to handle phrase-level pronunciation (preview in the comparison page).
Custom words: The current demo uses preset examples. Soon, you’ll be able to enter any Māori word to get real-time pronunciation support.