How to pronounce asleep in American English
“asleep” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to asleep the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “asleep” in: all accents · British English (83 clips)
“asleep” in real sentences — American speakers
419 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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problems with staying asleep or falling asleep.
NIH
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falling further asleep and further asleep Rigid.
National Archives
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sound-asleep secretary of state.
State Department
Words that sound like “asleep”
Words one sound away from asleep — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of asleep. 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.