I am confused: Please listen to the audio file from google here
This can't be right, can it?
That's funnny; the Google audio switched the consonant sounds. He actually says thee-AH-si-dee. The correct pronunciation is pretty close to "the Odyssey" but with a harder 'th' than you would normally use for "the."
The correct pronunciation is θēˈädəsē
which sounds like "thee-ahd-ih-see". The audio file appears to have mixed up the d
and s
sounds and is incorrect. Alternative pronunciations do exist but none of them would swap the d
and s
.