How to pronounce Odysseus

Odysseus is most commonly pronounced "oh diss ee us" (/oʊˈdɪsiəs/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Odysseus is PewDiePie's MIT-licensed self-hosted AI workspace (chat, agents, deep research, local models via Ollama/llama.cpp/vLLM), which went from zero to roughly 30k GitHub stars in 48 hours and past 77k within three weeks. The name is the Greek hero of the Odyssey and the stress lands on the second syllable: oh-DISS-ee-us, not oh-dee-SAY-us or o-DIE-see-us. The compressed variant oh-DISS-yoos is also standard English, and an unstressed first syllable (uh-DISS-ee-us) is the form Wikipedia lists.

Alternate readings you might hear:

• "oh diss yoos" /oʊˈdɪsjuːs/
• "uh diss ee us" /əˈdɪsiəs/

Source: Wiktionary — Odysseus (English IPA: /əˈdɪsjuːs/, /oʊˈdɪsi.əs/, /oʊˈdɪsjuːs/); Wikipedia gives /əˈdɪsiəs/

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