How to pronounce “tigress” in English

I leaped up and hurled my small hand ax straight at the tigress, and shouted at the top of my voice, run, run."

You talk a lot about these tablets and cuneiform, and there’s something, I don’t know, Tigress River to me about the whole, the whole....

And so sort of the idea of that, and um, tigress chugging beer, that's an element