HIE-a-tay (English) [key] submitted by omoroi, with the note: The main thing for a native English speaker when pronouncing three syllable Japanese names is to not stress the middle syllable. There really should be no 'stress' at all but as a guide, it sounds much, much better if you stress the first syllable the most, a little more than the other two, then the last two evenly, so they meld together.