How to pronounce Rodin

Rodin is most commonly pronounced "roh dan" (/roʊˈdæn/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Rodin (Hyper3D Rodin) is Deemos Technology's image-to-3D and text-to-3D generative model (2024-2025), named after French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Anglicized as roh-DAN: stress on the SECOND syllable, final '-DAN' rhyming with the name Dan (/dæn/), per Wikipedia's English IPA /roʊˈdæn/. Non-native devs wrongly read it as 'ROH-din' or 'ROD-in' with English spelling stress; it's non-obvious because the French-derived name stresses the final syllable and its nasal ending anglicizes to '-an' rather than '-in'.

Source: Wikipedia — Auguste Rodin (English IPA /roʊˈdæn/)

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