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How to pronounce captions in American English

“captions” pronunciation by American speakers

Listen to captions the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“captions” in real sentences — American speakers

308 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. CC icon, closed captions, at the bottom left of your screen, and closed captions will be

    Census Bureau

  2. stream is does it have captions probably not does it have descriptive audio definitely not captions

    The Obama White House

  3. open and the captions link open.

    CDC

Words that sound like “captions”

Words one sound away from captions — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Other forms of “captions”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of captions. 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.

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