Text-to-speech: emphasise words such as field names

Hi all, I've just started using the text to speech function for the first time and would like to know whether there is any way to empahise particular words in the sentence. My training is about software and when I refer to field names etc they are pronounced as part of the sentence and sound quite strange. I've tried using various prices of punctuation but can't find anything that sounds natural. The sentence that I'm having particular trouble with is telling the user that "if you are not... you have the option to select None" where "None" is one of a set or radio buttons. In text it's fine as I can make it bold but in the audio it sounds odd.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, there is a lot of info online about this stuff which has been awesome but can't find an answer to this particular question.
Cheers
Niamh

I would accumulate word frequency in a Map<String, Integer> -- is that what you are doing? But before processing a word I would check to see if it is contained in a Set<String> of common words. In which case further processing of the word is not required.

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