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Kooyeen Posted 18 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Guess this word - Audio clip
Hi,
This is something that has always bothered me... I know what this word is supposed to be, but I'd like to know what the others hear. When I have some opinions, you'll get the truth.
I am going to post a couple of links to the audio clips of a word. You have to guess the word, or tell me what you hear anyway. I hope you can hear them clearly, they are very short (a couple of seconds). The links are direct links to the mp3 files. I hope they are ok now, because this is the second time I've posted... Last time the file hosting service messed up in some way, and the links didn't point to my files.
I took them from longer clips, so I had to isolate the word the best way I could... The second is probably clearer, but I decided to include the first too. Here they are:
http://www.filenanny.com/files/44f7b9c9f14e0/clip1.mp3
http://www.filenanny.com/files/44f7b9c9f14e0/clip2.mp3
Thanks.
This is something that has always bothered me... I know what this word is supposed to be, but I'd like to know what the others hear. When I have some opinions, you'll get the truth.
I am going to post a couple of links to the audio clips of a word. You have to guess the word, or tell me what you hear anyway. I hope you can hear them clearly, they are very short (a couple of seconds). The links are direct links to the mp3 files. I hope they are ok now, because this is the second time I've posted... Last time the file hosting service messed up in some way, and the links didn't point to my files.
I took them from longer clips, so I had to isolate the word the best way I could... The second is probably clearer, but I decided to include the first too. Here they are:
http://www.filenanny.com/files/44f7b9c9f14e0/clip1.mp3
http://www.filenanny.com/files/44f7b9c9f14e0/clip2.mp3
Thanks.
Top answer
It's too short to be any word, definitively. If I have to guess, it's 'YES'.
- It's too short to be any word, definitively.
- If I have to guess, it's 'YES'.
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It's too short to be any word, definitively. If I have to guess, it's 'YES'.
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I'm afraid that I can't write what I understood because of the censorship 
Anyway, joking apart, they sound more like "
Anyway, joking apart, they sound more like "
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FrancescaI'm afraid that I can't write what I understood because of the censorshipYes, that's what I was expecting the others to hear. I do hear that, and that's why this is bothering me. I think you can hear the sounds a little bit more clearly if you use headphones instead of the speakers... But anyway, MM heard "yes" but... are you Californian? I think yo
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Ok, since no one answered, I am going to give you the context... I included a third one that sounds really weird to me. Anyway, the truth is that the word you were suposed to understand was "***", and what's giving me trouble is the fact that it seems to me correspondents on KCBS (San Francisco) say K-C-B-***. That vowel is too shifted to sound like an E to all Americans. I heard that shift is par
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I've finally remembered to listen to your files Kooyeen (sorry 
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wow the third guy really pronounces a weird S
)wow the third guy really pronounces a weird S
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Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with the third, I guess it's a rare event, lol. But I hear the S pronounced like in the first and the second very often, and it sounds too shifted towards the "a" as in "cat" to me... So I hear K-C-B-***. Maybe people from California or around that area (S.Francisco) are used to that, but what about the rest of Americans?
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