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title: "How to pronounce salmon | Murmur"
description: "Check salmon 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 salmon

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

Dictionary variant 1

`S AE1 M AH0 N`

**Syllable estimate**

2 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

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

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 salmon in context

Salmon appears in food writing, wildlife documentaries, and descriptions of river ecosystems. The surrounding action usually tells the listener whether the script concerns a prepared ingredient or a living fish. Recipe narration should keep the cooking instruction easy to follow, while nature narration should make movement and habitat clear.

1. Place the salmon on the tray with the sliced lemons.
2. The camera follows a salmon moving against the current.

### A practice cue

Audition salmon in the recipe or wildlife sentence your project actually uses. Listen for consistency when it repeats beside species names or cooking terms, and compare an external dictionary recording before changing the written ingredient or animal name to influence a model.

## Read the sound tokens

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

`S`sound in **sea**consonant`AE`sound in **at**vowel`M`sound in **me**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`N`sound in **knee**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.

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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