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In Sephardic Hebrew, it is pronounced pretty much the way a native English reader would pronounce the transliteratioin you gave. The emphasis is on the second syllable of each word. The second word can almost be transliterated as something between bite and buy-it.
In Ashkenazic Hebrew, Shalom becomes Sholem, with the emphasis on the first syllable, and Bayit is pronounced Beis, just one syllable.
In Tiberian Hebrew, the way we think it was pronounced 2000 years ago, it would be Shalom Bayith. The reason we know this is that Greek writers transliterated the final Tav as a Theta, and English (but not modern Greek) preserves the Theta as a th.
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