How to pronounce alarms
Listen to alarms in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“alarms” in real sentences
696 clips in the index · 328 American · 106 British · 8 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Um, fire alarms. Fire alarms.
British Library · hear it here
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detectors, and voice alarms.
UK Parliament · hear it here
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the interlinked fire alarms policy.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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There was no preceding alarms.
NTSB · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of alarms. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.