Isn’t the point of difference that, eyes had a little slide in the first vowel, ‘ah-I ss’ and maybe a more voiced z like s And ice just has extended one ‘ah- s’

Isn’t the point of difference that, eyes had a little slide in the first vowel, ‘ah-I ss’ and maybe a more voiced z like s And ice just has extended one ‘ah- s’ a and a more interdental friction s