--- title: "How to pronounce \"multiplay\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"multiplay\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/CZZbzthHtUM/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/multiplay" --- # How to pronounce "multiplay" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/mʌltæɪplɪ/` - **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-multiplay.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-multiplay.wav.mp3) - **Syllable Breakdown**: **mul·ti·play** - **Parts of Speech**: adjective, noun - **ADJECTIVE**: Describing a CD player (or similar) that can be preloaded with a stack of CDs - **ADJECTIVE**: multiplayer - **NOUN**: The ability of more than one player to participate in a game at the same time (especially by means of a network). - *Example*: "The team has never done networked multiplay for a racing game. We aren't completely sure we can do it." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "multiplay" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "I don't really have a quarrel with it. multiplayer options in games that have no use for them." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 51:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZZbzthHtUM&t=3083s) ### Example 2 > "it with a persistence a lot you know traditional video games you play them you win them it's kind of over you turn it off and it's gone these these mass multiplayer games are persistent you know you you become level nine you turn it off for three months you come back you're still level nine you can go to level 10 these can become something that you do for 10 years 20 years 50 years if" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkkmuJj7Mx0&t=164s) ### Example 3 > "achieved superhuman level performance in No Limit Texas Hold'em both heads up and multiplayer and now recently he co-created an AI system that can strategically out-negotiate humans using natural language in a popular board game called diplomacy which is a war game that emphasizes negotiation" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oHH4aClJQs&t=41s) ### Example 4 > "performances on before thought unsolvable problems like poker uh multiplayer poker diplomacy we're taking steps towards that direction what do you think it takes to go all the way to create superhuman level intelligence you know there's a lot of people trying to figure that out right now um and you know I should say like the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 140:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oHH4aClJQs&t=8428s) ### Example 5 > "pass the touring test I'd say there's at least two steps up right one is um a multiplayer touring test where you have chatbots talking to each other and then you ask can you determine the difference between in chat Bots talking to each other and clicking buttons and stuff and apps and and humans doing that and I think we're very far off I shouldn't say very far off at least I don't know how" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeH7qKZr0WI&t=1338s) ### Example 6 > "completely hooked on dopamine doesn't have any kind of inhibition and as a result is caught in a permanent seizure yes it's also in some sense a multiplayer role-playing game and people use it to play an avatar that is not like them as the Verna's sane world and they look through the world through the lens of their phones and think it's the real world but it's the Twitter of all that is thwarted by the popularity incentives of Twitter yet the the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 97:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3MSZrBM&t=5850s) ### Example 7 > "contingency plan is the strategy then I can actually go back to the normal form but I lose some information from the lack of sequentiality then the multiplayer versus two-player distinction is an important one so two-player games in zero-sum are conceptually easier and computationally" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 28:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7bStIQovcY&t=1696s) ### Example 8 > "Yeah, so I mean in in a way, while we're all talking about this setting, what when it actually comes out, what might make or break this game is the multiplayer mode cuz that is a a massive thing for Call of Duty. It's what really the games ride or die on, and Infinity Ward, they're overhauling movement in the game. They're also doing a big refresh of this thing called DMZ, which is the sort of extraction-style mode that, you know, pits people against AI" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXmewo0ApRI&t=313s) ### Example 9 > "about oh are single player games done does everybody you know just want to play these you know live service games does everyone just want to play multiplayer now um but I think there's always there always has been and I think there always will be a market for single player games for games that give you um you know a really cohesive singular experience and then allow you to move on to the next one there's a stat that often gets trotted out in these" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBpN7jx9W_o&t=356s) ### Example 10 > "players hands and driving that momentum from next to Beta to Now launch is been really really exciting and the way they're responding across the campaign multiplayer and zombies is uh it's absolutely awesome it really energizes the team that's already sort of hard at work on the postlaunch stuff so now it's like yeah okay let's keep going right like we know what we're doing they're loving it let's go but I is it sometimes tense when you hit that release button" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nYDicrzywE&t=124s) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "multiplay" correctly? 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