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Patients pronunces same to patience? So how about "rice" and "right"?
or only /ns/ in the end of word same to /ts/?
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Yes to patients and patience sounding the same. No, rice and right are not pronounced the same. There is no rule to explain this. You just have to remember.
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You could pronounce patients and patience the same. There is a subtle difference when I pronounce them, though.
Rice and right are pronounced differently.
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I think I, too, have a tendency to stress the final T-sound a little more in "patients". But it's subtle.
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peI$&nts
peI$&ns
The t pronouced in patients makes all the difference
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As far as I know, this is a case of epenthesis (the insertion of a plosive sound that is produced in the same area). Thus, we should say patience without a /t/ in extremely careful pronunciation, but if we just dwell on the transition between /n/ and /s/, a plosive /t/ is likely to be present. The same happens with length /leN(k)T/, etc.
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