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

# How to pronounce seismology

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

Dictionary variant 1

`S AY2 Z M AA1 L AH0 JH IY0`

**Syllable estimate**

4 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

2nd vowel position

**Secondary stress**

1st vowel position

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

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 seismology in context

Seismology studies earthquakes and the seismic waves associated with them. It appears in science lessons, reporting about earthquakes, and explanations of how instruments reveal activity beneath the surface. Narration should connect the field to a specific observation or measurement before asking listeners to follow a more technical account.

1. The introductory seismology course explains how researchers read ground motion.
2. Advances in seismology helped the team interpret the recorded waves.

### A practice cue

Read seismology with the instrument, observation, or course title beside it. Audition nearby technical terms separately, then listen to the complete explanation to ensure that unfamiliar vocabulary does not crowd out the relationship between the measurement and the conclusion.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of seismology. 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`AY`sound in **hide**vowel`Z`sound in **zee**consonant`M`sound in **me**consonant`AA`sound in **odd**vowel`L`sound in **lee**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`JH`sound in **gee**consonant`IY`sound in **eat**vowel

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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.

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Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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