Hi,
We've faced the exact same challenge on our side. In a few use cases, having only 10 "sounds like" entries per dictionary term is not enough, especially when there are many phonetic variations that directly impact transcription accuracy.
We even opened a support ticket with Genesys to check whether this limit could be increased, but unfortunately today this is a hard platform limitation and cannot be adjusted.
As a result, some level of imperfection is almost unavoidable when the number of real-world variations exceeds that cap.
That said, there is already an Ideas Portal request asking for an increase to the "sounds like" limit:
👉 https://genesyscloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/DARSTA-I-332
If this is something impacting your operation, I'd strongly recommend voting on that idea. The more traction it gets, the higher the chance it's prioritized by the product team.
In the meantime, what has helped us is focusing the limited slots on the highest-impact variations (those that most affect downstream analytics or automation), even though it does require some upfront analysis effort.
Hope this helps - and fingers crossed this idea moves forward soon.
Cheers!
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Mateus Nunes
Tech Leader Of CX at Solve4ME
Brazil
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-08-2026 17:24
From: Deepa Galaiya
Subject: Dictionary terms - 'sounds like' entries
Hi team,
HNY 2026 to all!
We have been looking at our transcription accuracy and have found it tricky that the dictionary feature is limited to only allowing 10 sounds like entries per dictionary term.
We have experienced multiple variations for some terms which throws off transcription accuracy.
It seems a bit limiting to expect that some terms won't ever be perfect because of the limitation of 10 sounds like phrases per term. How have other customers gotten around this?
Also thinking it would require significant analysis effort to work out which ones are higher volume errors. Are there any tips to speed this up?
Cheers
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Deepa Galaiya
Product Owner, Customer Interactions
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