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# How to pronounce "alt text" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ælttɛkst/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **al·ttext**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (12 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "alt text" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "Listen, this is something that he'll encounter. Alt text on an image, for example, that is the accessible name."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 34:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAksFzFh9E&t=2066s)

### Example 2
> "There is alt text behind them."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 25:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAksFzFh9E&t=1529s)

### Example 3
> "There is alt text there."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 25:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAksFzFh9E&t=1535s)

### Example 4
> "process you have um alt text your Comics that doesn't transfer to the book you have you have each comic be a different"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 15:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ZOSZZTIiE&t=959s)

### Example 5
> "Make sure that there is alt text for any image links."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 31:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAksFzFh9E&t=1866s)

### Example 6
> "And that's okay if you're only interested in texts that have the word pesticide. But if you're interested in alt text and you're going to run your neural network over alt text, then that is again going to be problematic because you have no idea how your neural network is doing on texts that do not contain that keyword."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 46:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuv3aJDJnMQ&t=2817s)

### Example 7
> "Like hundreds of millions of images scraped from the internet, along with their text descriptions. Those captions come from things like the alt text that website owners upload with their images, for accessibility and for search engines. So that’s how the engineers get these giant datasets."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVcsDDABEkM&t=366s)

### Example 8
> "The browser just does not expand the space of the image to display the alt text, and since my goal is for users of assistive technology, that's OK."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 25:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAksFzFh9E&t=1536s)

### Example 9
> "An infographic can't be read by a screen reader, and alt text is usually insufficient in order to convey what's in there."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 39:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAksFzFh9E&t=2394s)

### Example 10
> "though that like a lot of people notice is like if you hover your mouse over the strip you get the alt text and I spend a"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 16:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ZOSZZTIiE&t=992s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [alt](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/alt), [text](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/text)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "alt text" correctly?
"alt text" is pronounced `/ælttɛkst/`. Syllable breakdown: **al·ttext**.

### What does "alt text" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "alt text" in daily English.

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