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Important is pronounced not with two hard t sounds, but with a glottal stop: Impor[glottal stop]ant. That's not laziness, that's my actual dialect of English spoken by actual adult people.


I full appreciate that there are differences across the globe, but I'm with the parent on this one - I've always said it with two hard t's my whole life, as do most other people here in Australia. I would be asking chatGPT to fix her/his pronunciation during a conversation.

Reference video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GfTa7ozjYc

I agree with others here too. At the moment the voice sounds like "grinning barbie" from the end of Toy Story 2. Just stop smiling constantly and talk like a real person chatGPT!


Personally I've always said it with a hard r




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