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# How to pronounce "decision problem" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/dɛsɪsɪɒnprɒblɛm/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **de·ci·si·on·pro·blem**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "decision problem" in real conversation:

### Example 1
*Accent: US*
> "Now, what about decision problems? Decision problem is a specification of what we want to solve. So we can think of it as saying, for every input, is the answer yes or no?"
- **Watch at 14:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbafQJx1CIA&t=848s)

### Example 2
> "Alan Turing even wrote in his final publication, "No systematic method is yet known "by which one can tell whether two knots are the same. "A decision problem which might well be unsolvable "is the one concerning knots. "The results in this article set certain bounds "to what we can hope to achieve purely by reasoning."."
- **Watch at 3:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DBhTXM_Br4&t=239s)

### Example 3
> "So, it's a very complex structure that economists will start by modeling that's the dynamic decision problem that the person has. And for every dynamic decision problem, there's a range of strategies that the person can do. Things that say well today I'm gonna choose this option and tomorrow if I get this information between now and tomorrow I'll make this choice."
- **Watch at 8:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWryBMbgVk&t=515s)

### Example 4
> "Let me write a little bit on the board. So here's my decision problem With a whole bunch of structural stuff."
- **Watch at 9:35**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWryBMbgVk&t=575s)

### Example 5
> ". >> From strategy number 7321 million I mean lost of strategies. A typical decision problem in the financial literature goes on forever. You have an infinite number of strategies and what you do for every strategy you have over here."
- **Watch at 10:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWryBMbgVk&t=621s)

### Example 6
> "between the two kinds of problems but the counterpart of being the hardest decision problem the hardest yes no problem the kind of part of that uh is is to minimize or maximize an objective function and so a problem that's hardest in the class when viewed in terms of optimization"
- **Watch at 69:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KllCrlfLuzs&t=4196s)

### Example 7
> "Every modern computing system your laptop your smartphone and even the little computer inside your microwave and thermostat are all Turing Complete. To answer Hilbert's decision problem, Turing applied these new Turing machines to an intriguing computational puzzle: the halting problem. Put simply this asks "Is there an algorithm that can determine, given a description of a turing machine and the input from its tape, whether the Machine will run forever or halt?" For example we know our Turing machine will halt when given the input 1 1 0"
- **Watch at 4:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TycxwFmdB0&t=292s)

### Example 8
*Accent: US*
> "hard okay and the decision problem the decision problem of can can you pack these bin these items into even two"
- **Watch at 16:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gl-yNso0_0&t=1016s)

### Example 9
*Accent: US*
> "hard how about the decision problem I mean the decision problem for sat is if you're given a CNF formula does there exist an assignment to the variables"
- **Watch at 22:28**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gl-yNso0_0&t=1348s)

### Example 10
*Accent: AUS*
> "complexity of a decision problem highlighting them the most relevant element that are for"
- **Watch at 18:55**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WGhhMy9uI&t=1135s)


## How to Pronounce "decision problem"

- **Syllables**: de · ci · si · on · pro · blem
- **IPA**: `/dɛsɪsɪɒnprɒblɛm/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[decision](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/decision), [problem](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/problem)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “decision problem”?
“decision problem” is pronounced /dɛsɪsɪɒnprɒblɛm/ (de · ci · si · on · pro · blem). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “decision problem”?
“decision problem” has 6 syllables: de · ci · si · on · pro · blem.

### How can I hear “decision problem” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “decision problem” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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