How to pronounce “desirous” in English

So, to maintain his monopoly, he often undercut his competition until they either gave up or went out of business.Tudor's ambition didn't end there, and he wrote that, There was "an experiment I have been desirous of making for 20 years."In 1833, he took on his biggest challenge yet, a four-month journey to ship ice halfway across the world to Calcutta, India.