Hi All, How Is "Audio" Pronounced?

English as a Second Language Listening, speaking, pronunciation and accent
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Hi all,

How is “audio” pronounced?

Thanks

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Hi,

I would pronounce this as follows. Audio audio visual audio equipment

Alan

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Thanks a lot Alan :wink:

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Hello Mochad and Alan,

It sounds like in “autumn”, isn’t it?

Yuri

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Hi Mochad.
Here is a link. Please check this out too.
thefreedictionary.com/audio

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Hi AppleO,
If it’s about links, here are two that contradicts the way you pronounced it:
[url]http://www.answers.com/topic/audio[/url]
[url]http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/audio[/url]

Nevertheless, if you checked the link you gave me, you will find the following:

Back to their pronunciation key at the following link:[url]http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/pk.htm[/url]
you’ll find out that they pronounce the “o” with a “^” on it as in “caught”, “paw”, “for”…

Best,
Mochad

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Hi Yuri,

I would ask Alan to pronounce “autumn” and “audio” in both the British and the American accent. Please Alan :slight_smile:

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Hi Mochad,

I am not an American speaker and so I would be reluctant to pronounce those words in an American ‘accent’. I can only say them in my own native ‘accent’ - ‘autumn’ ‘audio’.

Alan

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In standard US English, the words are pronounced [ɔdiow] and [ɔɾəm].

Notice that I’m using almost the same vowel at the beginning as Alan is, although his is a little tighter and rounder, but neither one of us pronounces it as [a].

Also, when I say “autumn”, the /t/ changes to [ɾ], which is like a fast Arabic or Spanish R. North Americans do this when there is a stressed vowel before the T and a weak vowel after the T.

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Jamie, I’m thrilled to hear your voice! Very clear and pleasant. Also, thanks so much for your explanations, very valuable.[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Hi Jamie,

After hearing it over 5 times on the forum I downloaded your voice message and heard it almost 15 times on the laptop :wink: Thank you very much! Though I still have problem with “autumn”! I hear no fast Arabic/Spanish “r”!

Mochad

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When I say “autumn”, the T changes to something like a very fast D. It’s actually the same sound as the R sound in Arabic and Spanish. This is what North Americans use in that phonetic environment. After some Arabs learn to pronounce an American R, they often make the mistake of pronouncing the T’s in words like “autumn”, “better”, “water”, etc., as if they were American R’s, so they end up with wrongly pronouncing them as something like “aurumn”, “berrer”, “warer”, etc.

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I can see now! I noticed your reply while trying to record my previous voice message!

That is interesting! I’ll further investigate what you’ve said :wink: Thanks again!

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So am I right Jamie?

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I think you have “audio” right, Apple0.

Now try “automatic”, “automobile”, “audacity” and “awesome”.

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I would agree with that :wink: “berrer”!!!
Actually I was going to tell you that I’m hearing it as a “soft D” and not as a “fast r”! But you clarified it before I managed to upload my recording.

This one is what confused me! And still! Why are you insisting that it is something like a fast Arabic R? As far as I know, there is no similar thing in Arabic! Do you have any examples?
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It’s like the R sound in seyara.

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Here is my response.

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Apple0, your pronunciation of those words was pretty good. Now you have to learn how to pronounce what English speakers call “long A”. There is no [e] sound in English, there is only an [ey] diphthong. So my name is not [dʒemi], it’s [dʒeymi]. “Take” is not pronounced [tek], but [teyk].

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Jamie, where’s your voice?[YSaerTTEW443543]

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