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

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

Dictionary variant 1

`V IH1 S ER0 AH0 L`

**Syllable estimate**

3 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

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

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 visceral in context

Visceral describes a response felt strongly and immediately, often with a bodily or instinctive quality. Film reviews, personal accounts, and descriptions of art may use it to characterize an experience. Narration should point to the sound, image, or event that produces the response rather than relying on the adjective to supply intensity.

1. The sudden change in sound gives the scene a visceral impact.
2. Her account conveys the visceral fear she felt in the tunnel.

### A practice cue

Audition visceral with the particular reaction or scene described in your script. Compare a measured critical reading with a more immediate personal one, checking that vocal intensity comes from the passage's perspective rather than from this adjective alone.

## Read the sound tokens

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

`V`sound in **vee**consonant`IH`sound in **it**vowel`S`sound in **sea**consonant`ER`sound in **hurt**vowel`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`L`sound in **lee**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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