How to pronounce decibels
Listen to decibels 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.
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“decibels” in real sentences
108 clips in the index · 67 American · 8 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the trombone at 162 decibels.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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begins at around 35 decibels.
NIH · hear it here
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be plus five decibels or minus five decibels which would mean push or attenuate this particular
sqdr · hear it here
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If If Amax is equal to 3 decibels, okay?
arthur terlep · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of decibels. 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.