Pronunciation of "going"

I hear it pronounced as gow-uhng most of the time, and there's a distinct w that can shorten if you're talking fast, but it's still there. However, some people always (audio example) pronounce it with no w at all even if they pace their speech.

Is it a specific accent, or just an alternative pronunciation, or am I mishearing? I really need closure.

Edit/update: You can clearly hear at least a hint of /w/ in the recordings linked below (https://forvo.com/word/going/#en, I'm talking American accent right now). In comparison, here https://youtu.be/cSx665cP8NE?t=40, there's no trace of it, at least to my ear. I often listen to audiobooks and narrators always pronounce "going" the same way throughout the whole book (I'm not talking about goin', gonna and other variations right now), either always with or always without that w.

Maybe it has something to do with the preceding sound? If it was, say, /əʊ/, you pretty much physically have to use that /w/ moving from /əʊ/ to /ɪ/.

Perhaps I'm just paying attention to something that is.. normal, but I'm trying to understand if there's a reason behind or it's just a personal preference.

The issue is because of vowel reduction in unstressed words, especially common in fast connected speech. This is normal and not really specific to any particular accent/dialect.

The short unstressed vowel i in English is usually transcribed using the character ɪ, as in /ˈɡɔɪŋ/ or /ˈɡoʊɪŋ/. This is the same short sound used in the words such as "sit", "will" - which are not at all like the long i sound in words like "seat" and "wheel". When said in fast connected speech, especially in an unstressed word, that short i sound can sound even more reduced, almost like a very very short schwa sound (or ə in IPA). It can be hard to hear the difference TBH, possibly even hard to hear it at all if you aren't used to it.

Edit: further to a comment by @MichaelHarvey, it also sounds a bit more like she is actually saying "goin". In fast connected speech it's often quite common to drop that final ng sound and just use an n sound. Many dialects/accents of English do this.

As for the w sound you can often hear, almost like gowing, again in fast speech this can also often be reduced, especially when the word itself is unstressed. Sometimes, it can even sound like "gʊn".

The sound sample is very short, but it sounds like general American English to me. I'm not really that familiar with American regional accents though, as I'm from the UK. The pronunciation of going sounds pretty standard/normal for most English speakers to be honest, not just Americans. There's no problem with it at all.