How to pronounce tones
Listen to tones 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.
“tones” in real sentences
417 clips in the index · 92 American · 29 British · 8 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
EXPERIMENT WITH SPECIAL INFORMATION TONES.
FTC · hear it here
-
do not get relayed through the Orbiter the tones will keep uh the tones will keep
NASA · hear it here
-
tones, but people to me were expressing them more in tones of community leaders feeling frustrated,
Dept of Justice · hear it here
-
I generally like the deeper the deeper tones of every color, the richer tones of every
British Library · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of tones. 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.