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How to pronounce omniscient

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

The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists this North American English pronunciation for omniscient. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

AA0 M N IH1 SH AH0 N T

Syllable estimate: 3 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

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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 omniscient in context

Omniscient describes a narrator or character presented as knowing everything relevant to a story. In literary commentary, it helps explain whose thoughts the audience can access. A voiceover should distinguish the discussion of this narrative perspective from the voice actually telling the story, especially when quoted passages follow.

The novel uses an omniscient narrator to move between the two households.
An omniscient guide would have known why the door was locked.

Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of omniscient. Unstressed vowels may sound reduced. These cues follow the CMU phoneme-set key (Appendix A).

AAsound in oddvowel

Msound in meconsonant

Nsound in kneeconsonant

IHsound in itvowel

SHsound in sheconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Tsound in teaconsonant

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How to pronounce omniscient

Word: omniscient
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: AA0 M N IH1 SH AH0 N T
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 3
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The novel uses an omniscient narrator to move between the two households.
An omniscient guide would have known why the door was locked.

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Practice note: Compare omniscient in a literary explanation and in a character description. Listen to the following noun, since narrator and guide carry different implications, and avoid letting emphasis on the unfamiliar adjective interrupt the sentence's main observation.

CMUdict is a North American English lexicon, not a recording or a complete accent guide.
Variant order is dictionary order; it is not a ranking of correctness.
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