How to pronounce Tri Dao
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Tri Dao is most commonly pronounced "tree dow" (/ˌtriː ˈdaʊ/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.
Tri Dao is the author of FlashAttention and co-author of Mamba, and co-founder/Chief Scientist at Together AI; his name fronts the Dao-AILab kernels and Mamba model cards. The name is Vietnamese: "Tri" is TREE, not "try", and "Dao" (Đào) rhymes with "how" — it is neither the Taoist "tao" nor the crypto "DAO". VOA's Vietnamese pronunciation guide renders the surname Dao as "DOW" and the Tri- syllable as "TREE-".
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How do you pronounce Tri Dao?
Tri Dao is pronounced "tree dow" (/ˌtriː ˈdaʊ/). Tri Dao is the author of FlashAttention and co-author of Mamba, and co-founder/Chief Scientist at Together AI; his name fronts the Dao-AILab kernels and Mamba model cards. The name is Vietnamese: "Tri" is TREE, not "try", and "Dao" (Đào) rhymes with "how" — it is neither the Taoist "tao" nor the crypto "DAO". VOA's Vietnamese pronunciation guide renders the surname Dao as "DOW" and the Tri- syllable as "TREE-". Source: VOA Pronunciation Guide — Vietnamese names (DAO TRONG LICH → "DOW …"; NGUYEN MINH TRIET → "… TREE-eht").
What is the IPA for Tri Dao?
The IPA for Tri Dao is /ˌtriː ˈdaʊ/, respelled "tree dow".
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