How native speakers pronounce “room”

interesting it wasn't all romantic I didn't have a dorm room so I slept on the floor in friends rooms I returned

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

you would hear about plenty of tears. If you stole my journal from my hotel room, you would read about plenty of fears.

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

Anyway, she went to see this specialist. So, this oak-paneled room, and she was there with her mother, and she was led and sat on this chair at the end,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and they went and left her. But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk. And when they got out of the room, he said to her mother, "Just stand and watch her."

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

he said to her mother, "Just stand and watch her." And the minute they left the room, she was on her feet, moving to the music.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

She said, "She did. I can't tell you how wonderful it was. We walked in this room, and it was full of people like me -- people who couldn't sit still,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

In fact, I could see them through the window, lying on the dining room table where I had left them. So I quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

Too many thirtysomethings and fortysomethings look at themselves, and at me, sitting across the room, and say about their 20s,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

that you can start today and that are available to every single person in this room. You control today.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

all you got to do is realize, listen, there's more good, high-quality information available to everybody in this room than at any point in humanity.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

I have to bring in Israelis and Palestinians to the hardest room in my life. So that's what I did.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

So that's what I did. Come into that room with me. It’s weeks after October 7:

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

No one trusts anyone. Not the room, not the process, not each other, not me.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

journalists serious operators. And outside that room, the public narrative is collapsing so fast --

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

it's so hard, it's so polarized. In a room like that, if you start with the word peace, you get laughed out of the building.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

And I called it STIR on purpose, because if you do not stir the room, you get positions sitting next to each other forever.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

and then the return of humanity. Wherever conflict rules, STIR that room until humanity rises. Thank you.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

So when I show people these questions in these experiments, I can feel a sense of dread spreading over the room when I put these questions up on the board,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

because to this freezing-cold liquid nitrogen, the nice comfy air in this room is super hot. But here’s the catch:

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

and he had been admitted to the hospital to begin chemotherapy. It was almost midnight when I got to his room. He was asleep, but I found his mother

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

That one accident in a dying world is the reason everyone in this room is alive today. Biologists call these moments major transitions

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

You stare at the blank page, defeated. You head up to your room, anxious and irritable. Your amygdala, the part of the brain involved with processing emotion,

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

The interrogation became a dialogue. The room's energy flipped. (Audio) NKK: This power, as Justice Gorsuch said,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

And I remember it felt like she and I were the only two people in that marble and mahogany room. And in the half-second before I answered,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

and if you’re restless, leave the room and tire yourself out with relaxing activities like reading,

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

That is, language that does something other than describe the world. When you tell a child to clean up their room, you're not describing the state of the room,

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

When you tell a child to clean up their room, you're not describing the state of the room, you're issuing an order.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

(Applause) This is a room of type A women. This is a room of sleep-deprived women.

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

This is a room of type A women. This is a room of sleep-deprived women. And I learned the hard way the value of sleep.

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

and pulled the trigger? From the recovery room, I called Afghan women I knew,

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

Past performance is what you've already done that matters. Future vision is something that everyone in the room wants. The ask is what you want.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

and deliberate discomfort in the exact places where there's the most room for change. At work, instead of backing away from an uncomfortable conversation,

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

And here’s the thing: differences are inevitable. Look around this room. Think about your travel into this room today.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

Look around this room. Think about your travel into this room today. You encountered all kinds of differences.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

Likely the answer is no. For most of us in this room. But I think we can all agree

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

but couldn't manage to fit me in to a regular sort of conference room meeting, and said, "I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?"

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

So instead of going to coffee meetings or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings, I ask people to go on a walking meeting,

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

who never know what their body is experiencing. I didn't notice I was burning out until I was literally in the emergency room. But one of the things that causes burnout

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

48 percent. That's half this room. Actually, in this room, probably more than half.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

That's half this room. Actually, in this room, probably more than half. And yet, the way that we commonly talk about burnout

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

and your belief in our broader mission. TMD: It's important to me that everyone in this room understands exactly how change-making works in GirlTrek.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

One evening, I was fast asleep in our tiny two-room apartment when suddenly the phone began to ring.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

I trust the deepest kind of silence because it doesn't leave room for argument. Let me put that differently.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

a threatening silence, a silence that breaks your heart open in a room that's suddenly empty. Unfortunately, most of us know how to make silence a weapon or a shield.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

But even if you're in a busy city, just step into a church or sit quietly in one corner of your room without your devices, for 20 minutes

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

In fact, often they seemed closer to me when I was sitting in silence than when they were talking to me in the same room. I could also register exactly what I should be doing

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

when suddenly the phone does begin to ring in the middle of the night, or nurses race into the room to feel for a pulse, the only thing you have to draw upon

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

In fact, three weeks before she came to visit us for the first time, she went to an emergency room in Los Angeles. The emergency room doctors said,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

for the first time, she went to an emergency room in Los Angeles. The emergency room doctors said, "We've run some tests, Veronica.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

In the three weeks before Veronica met us, she went to the emergency room three times. She went back and forth,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

and I turned the handle on the door and I entered the room. You should understand that Veronica,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

above all gods and mysteries, and there's no more room for mystical creatures who take dictation from the divine.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

ask about my home before? In those visits to the emergency room, I had two CAT scans,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

So I just lifted my face up from the manuscript and I directed my comments to an empty corner of the room. And I said aloud, "Listen you, thing,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

The laundry pile reached impressive heights. And there was often not a path to walk from room to room. And when I should have been catching up on sleep,

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

that she keeps in her desk, floss she keeps in the living room and a no-rinse prescription toothpaste.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

(Cheers and applause) I moved all of my family's clothes into one closet off the laundry room, and now I just toss things into organized bins unfolded.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

but what he was doing was equally impressive. Hans had learned to watch the people in the room to tell when he should tap his hoof.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

So Hans couldn't do math, but he had learned to watch the people in the room who could do math, which, I mean, still pretty impressive for a horse.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

To illustrate this, they developed something they call the Chinese room argument. In the Chinese room, there is a person, hypothetical person,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

the Chinese room argument. In the Chinese room, there is a person, hypothetical person, who does not understand Chinese,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

that tell him how to respond in Chinese to any Chinese sentence. Here's how the Chinese room works. A piece of paper comes in through a slot in the door,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

To somebody who speaks Chinese, standing outside this room, it might seem like the person inside the room speaks Chinese.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

standing outside this room, it might seem like the person inside the room speaks Chinese. But we know they do not,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

So what does that tell us about AI? Well, when you and I stand outside of the room, when we speak to one of these AIs like ChatGPT,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

when we speak to one of these AIs like ChatGPT, we are the person standing outside the room. We're feeding in English sentences,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

How do we know if AI understands us? To answer that question, let's go back to the Chinese room again. Let's say we have two Chinese rooms.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

Let's say we have two Chinese rooms. In one Chinese room is somebody who actually speaks Chinese, and in the other room is our impostor.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

In one Chinese room is somebody who actually speaks Chinese, and in the other room is our impostor. When the person who actually speaks Chinese gets a piece of paper

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

if we want to know if AI really understands language like we do, we need to get inside of the Chinese room. We need to know what the AI is doing,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

it's very easy to be fooled. We need to get inside of the metaphorical room of AI in order to see what's happening.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

he likened the process to walking out of one room proceeding down a hallway then entering another room

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one room proceeding down a hallway then entering another room one of the clearest findings of my work

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before they've left the old one meaning they're in the new room before they've left the old

Superpower

first if they have children often have to go back into that old room to be a parent simply put there is no single way to go

Superpower

so I had to write back and forth with the receptionist at the front desk. To make matters worse, when the doctor came into the room, he said, "Oh, it's alright.

How AI Can Bridge the Deaf and Hearing Worlds | Adam Munder | TED · TED

and I was dying for the first time. My doctors came in the room and told me, "David, we've tried everything. There's nothing more we can do."

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

But I was so sick, I didn't really know what my doctors meant, until my family came in the room and started hugging me goodbye, and a priest read me my last rites.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

casting off certain familiar parts of your story in order to make room for new ones that act of cleaning house opens the

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1941 the 71 year old French Master Henry Matisse was lying in a hospital room and niece preparing to die

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195 nations, agreed to try to get to net zero by mid-century. And let me deal with the elephant in the room. One nation, only one, has begun the process of withdrawing,

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

And the party's still jumpin' 'Cause my mama ain't home I got bitches in the living room gettin’ it on And they ain't leaving til six in the morning

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

to prioritize future growth over protecting the present. Very few people in this room have ever worried about how they were going to obtain food or shelter or heat,

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

but collectively, they also made it possible for us to be in this room together or listening on the internet, rather than huddled by a smoky fire knitting stockings to sell.

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

so look for the right balance and harmony. Some goals, let's call them temptations, should take less room on your plate. However, instead of trying to push them out of mind,

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

Which, if you're like me, that sent me spiraling. So what I did, I kid you not, I went into a dark room in the office right after my calls, and I pulled out my phone

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

So many of them thought they were bad, too. They'd been out of the room playing when their mom died, or they'd said something in anger to an ill parent that they regretted.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

I've been one of the many leaders, many of them here in this room, of Giving Tuesday since it was created in 2012.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

So ... When you leave this room today, I challenge all of you to start a meaningful practice

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

This will not be all -- there will be people who will use this in ways that some people in this room, maybe you or I, don’t like.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

That's actually mattering to what they can discover. CA: What’s the plausible near-term discovery, like, room temperature -- SA: Superconductors?

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

SA: It's like the joke, if you’ve got 10 OpenAI researchers in a room and ask to define AGI, you’d get 14 definitions.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

I mean, that last thing you said there, "I've never felt love like this," I think any parent in the room so knows that feeling, that wild biological feeling that humans have

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

in what our hundreds of millions of users want as a whole. I think a lot of the room has historically been decided in small elite summits.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

rather than have a bunch of people who are, like, blessed by society to sit in a room and make these decisions, I think that's very cool.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And when we have gotten things wrong, because the elites in the room had a different opinion about what people wanted for the guardrails on image-gen

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

coming out of the actions of hundreds of millions of people. SA: Also 100 people in a room making a decision. CA: And the hundreds of millions of people don't have control over,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

of like a little toddler sitting in a doctor's office waiting room or something, and there was a magazine, like one of those old,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

You expressed emotions and feelings that so many people in the room feel, and they were just so moved

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED