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title: "How to pronounce forte | Murmur"
description: "Check forte pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet."
canonical: "https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/forte"
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# How to pronounce forte

Check forte pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet.

## The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists these 2 North American English pronunciations for **forte**. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: **1** primary, **2** secondary, **0** unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

`F AO1 R T EY0`

**Syllable estimate**

2 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

Dictionary variant 2

`F AO1 R T`

**Syllable estimate**

1 vowel nucleus

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

[Check forte in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forte).

Syllable counts come from vowel tokens; CMUdict does not supply syllable boundaries here. Variant order follows the dictionary and does not rank correctness. This lexicon does not represent every accent or context.

## Use forte in context

Forte can refer to a person's particular strength and also appears as a musical direction. Those uses deserve their own context and pronunciation reference, since a voice may handle them differently. Narration should state whether it is discussing ability or instructing a musical performance before relying on the word.

1. Detailed character work is her forte.
2. The score marks the entrance forte to contrast with the earlier passage.

### A practice cue

Audition forte in the exact sense used by your script and compare the relevant reference. If the project includes both personal strengths and score directions, review those passages separately and make a deliberate consistency choice within each context.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of forte. Unstressed vowels may sound reduced. These cues follow the [CMU phoneme-set key (Appendix A)](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aria/Papers/MastersThesis.pdf#page=115).

`F`sound in **fee**consonant`AO`sound in **ought**vowel`R`sound in **read**consonant`T`sound in **tea**consonant`EY`sound in **ate**vowel

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## Make an audition worksheet

Select a dictionary variant for your checklist. The two original sentences retain their normal spelling; this worksheet helps you review a recording rather than forcing a speech engine to use phonemes.

Copying and downloading happen in your browser. No script upload or audio generation is needed.

## Dictionary source

The phonemes on this page come from [CMU Pronouncing Dictionary](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/cmudict.dict). The dictionary maintainers acknowledge that errors and omissions can remain; check another source or a speaker when the pronunciation matters.

[CMUdict README](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/README) · [Included dictionary license](https://www.murmurtts.com/downloads/cmudict-license.txt)

Source version and checksum

Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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