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

# How to pronounce respite

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

Dictionary variant 1

`R EH1 S P IH0 T`

**Syllable estimate**

2 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

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

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 respite in context

Respite means a temporary period of relief from something difficult or tiring. Travel writing, personal stories, and descriptions of caregiving may use it in different circumstances. Narration should identify what the person is relieved from and keep the temporary nature of the break clear without making the word sound like a permanent solution.

1. The shaded courtyard offered a welcome respite from the afternoon heat.
2. The volunteers arranged a brief respite for the family caring for him.

### A practice cue

Audition respite with the source of relief named in the sentence. Compare the dictionary transcription against a second reference if your audience expects a particular accent, and keep the surrounding passage natural rather than slowing only this word.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of respite. 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`EH`sound in **Ed**vowel`S`sound in **sea**consonant`P`sound in **pee**consonant`IH`sound in **it**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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