the pronunciation of 辞書 is jisho, however, why does it sound like jishyo in
prerecorded pronunciation online?
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pronunciation
The pronunciation of the Japanese translation of dictionary
I'm unsure of the recording you are referring to, but just looking at
jisho.org, the entry sounds like "jisho" to me.
[https://jisho.org/word/辞書](https://jisho.org/word/%E8%BE%9E%E6%9B%B8) -- so
it isn't a universal phenomenon!

One possible reason as to why your resource is saying "jisyo" is that one of
the major systems of romanisation of Japanese (the Nihon-shiki system; see
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon-shiki_romanization>) uses 'syo' instead
of 'sho' (as represented in the Hepburn system) to represent しょ. A computer-
generated rendering of 'syo' might therefore just sound as such.
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