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title: "How to pronounce receipt | Murmur"
description: "Check receipt pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet."
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PRONUNCIATION / Work and business

# How to pronounce receipt

Check receipt 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 **receipt**. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: **1** primary, **2** secondary, **0** unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

`R IH0 S IY1 T`

**Syllable estimate**

2 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

2nd vowel position

Dictionary variant 2

`R IY0 S IY1 T`

**Syllable estimate**

2 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

2nd vowel position

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

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 receipt in context

Receipt can mean a document acknowledging payment or the act of receiving something. It appears in shopping instructions, expense tutorials, and formal messages about delivery. Narration should make the relevant action clear, especially when a listener must keep a document, submit it, or confirm that an item arrived.

1. Keep the receipt until the replacement arrives.
2. The office will confirm receipt of your application by email.

### A practice cue

Audition receipt in both keep the receipt and confirm receipt if your script uses both meanings. Listen for whether the instruction remains easy to act on, and avoid giving the written spelling extra emphasis in a routine administrative passage.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of receipt. 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).

`R`sound in **read**consonant`IH`sound in **it**vowel`S`sound in **sea**consonant`IY`sound in **eat**vowel`T`sound in **tea**consonant

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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.

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## 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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