# Create a new speech dictionary

```
POST 
/enhancements/speech/dictionaries
```

A speech dictionary is a flat list of terms (names, proper nouns, acronyms, specialized terminology) that helps the speech recognition correctly caption the source audio of a speech enhancement. It does not translate terms: the source audio is first captioned in the source language (aided by the dictionary) and then translated into the target languages. Connect a dictionary to an ingest via the `dictionary` field of the speech enhancement entry; the dictionary `language` must match that enhancement's `sourceLanguage`. Terms are cleaned up automatically (whitespace normalized, empty and duplicate entries dropped); terms that cannot be fixed automatically (forbidden characters ";" or "/", more than 6 words) are rejected with `invalid_value`.

## Request

## Responses

**200**

Speech dictionary created successfully