How native speakers pronounce “sound”

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Good things are coming to me. That may sound glib. It may sound naive.

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

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Good things are coming to me. That may sound glib. It may sound naive.

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

That may sound glib. It may sound naive. Life is far more complicated than that.

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

We think about the world in all the ways that we experience it. We think visually, we think in sound, we think kinesthetically. We think in abstract terms, we think in movement.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

on a career by the time I'm 30, I'll be fine." But then it starts to sound like this: "My 20s are almost over, and I have nothing to show for myself.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

I had a better résumé the day after I graduated from college." And then it starts to sound like this: "Dating in my 20s was like musical chairs.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

don't seem big enough." Now Emma's story made that sound easy, but that's what I love about working with twentysomethings.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Three, you control your reality. That might sound weird, but you do. What you read, what you watch, what you listen to.

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

Then, as the body tries to pull air through, these tissues vibrate, creating the sound we call snoring. This is also why people with sleep apnea are often told to avoid this position.

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

But it would have been embarrassing. And then I remembered, you do have a camera without sound, so I didn't even act on my G-rated thought.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

it's better to get it over with quickly. Sound brutal, but perhaps familiar? Every morning I ask myself, how can I, knowing what I know,

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

and talk to me about different hairstyles and haircuts I could get. And I even enjoyed the gentle sound of the scissors -- snip, snip, snip --

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

leading to worse health outcomes from stress alone. Predictions sound like descriptions of the world, like facts, but they're not.

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

stay ambitious. I know it might sound foolish to be setting high goals when you are losing a battle.

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

to hone their interpersonal communications skills. It might sound like a funny question, but we have to ask ourselves: Is there any 21st-century skill

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

I'm going to give you a few examples of how you can do this. The first could sound something like, "I'd love to help with that, but I only have 30 minutes today.

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

But "fine" isn't fine. It's the sound of potential quietly fading. Here's the truth most of us don't say out loud.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

the amateur musician. It may sound simple, but if we want to derive meaning from aspects of our life other than work,

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

probably just by sitting quietly alone. And I realize this can all sound a little otherworldly, but to me, it's as practical as going to the health club.

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

happen in chronological sequence that idea may sound good on paper but it's not how we live in real life

Superpower

Now coming from a guy who builds weapons for a living, what I'm about to say next might sound counterintuitive to you. At our core,

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

fall into this trap. And there’s people who say things that sound pretty good, like, you should never allow a robot to pull the trigger.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

having sex long before the first formal date doesn't sound very slow but it can be

Romance

Is that much different than, say, a rhyming dictionary? What if I used AI to create a new instrument sound that's never existed? Is that much different than a synthesizer?

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

time to sound a note of caution there's a risk that slowing down ends up

Slow for Others

without a true feeling of gratitude in your heart. A word is a sound, and a sound is a vibration,

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

A word is a sound, and a sound is a vibration, and vibration creates energy.

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

you're not trying to get published in a poetry anthology. You don't have to sound like Shakespeare. My guess is you're probably not trying to get a job at Hallmark.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

My guess is you're probably not trying to get a job at Hallmark. Just want to sound like you. You just need to be willing to try.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

And I said, "This may sound strange, but I want to thank you for keeping the bugs out of my coffee."

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

but I want to thank you for keeping the bugs out of my coffee." And she said, "Well, that does sound strange, but you just made my day."

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

because that's how we think about ourselves, we look and sound and work and worship in very different ways.

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

of a future based in the value of radical generosity. That phrase might sound like it means something big or extreme or dramatic or newsworthy.

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

How do you feel?" These sound kind of meaningless, right? And, in some ways, they are. They have no semantic meaning.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

Now when I walk you through these six ingredients, you might say, "Oh, they sound familiar," but there's a twist

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

"Honey, it's not what you said, it's how you said it." Sound familiar? Yeah.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

Now you're a little tired of it. Alright, so what would a harsh startup sound like? "You're just too cheap to take me out to dinner!"

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

Ugh! Alright. A softened startup would sound more like this. "I'm feeling frustrated..."

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

because doing so can help us build better marriages from the beginning. I know, it doesn't sound very romantic, but sometimes the things we do out of love

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

that we call extremophiles. Now I understand some of these things might sound scary. One of the biggest concerns is biosecurity,

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

that there is something about being Black in America that has made motherhood sound like mourning.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

like mourning. Sound like one morning I could wake up and see my son as a repeat of last week's story.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

and see my son as a repeat of last week's story. Sound like I could wake up and realize the death of my daughter wouldn't even be newsworthy.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

are very different than the ones we might ask today. They sound really old-fashioned now. They asked them things like,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

classes like hip-hop sampling, on how neo soul and blues became the basis to a new sound taught me how media can be used as a way of preserving legacy,

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

That is echolocation. That is the sound of the sperm whale hunting by listening for echoes bouncing off of prey.

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

It didn't seem like this was possible. And then we started hearing a different sound. It was a rapid series of clicks.

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

And before long, it won't just be people that have AIs. Strange as it may sound, every organization, from small business to nonprofit to national government,

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

but also to remember how it feels to be immersed in it in a digital age. Generative AI creates possibilities to train algorithms with any image, sound, text and even scent data.

How AI Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory | Refik Anadol | TED · TED

Soon, I believe we will be exploring hyper models, text to image, to sound, to scent, to life.

How AI Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory | Refik Anadol | TED · TED

Instead, we decided to collect our own image, sound, scent and climate data. By traveling to our first destination, Iceland,

How AI Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory | Refik Anadol | TED · TED

that you can see from the ground, that's been abandoned. Now, this may sound like the beginning of the High Line story in Manhattan, and it's very similar, except they haven't developed this into a park yet,

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

you're in a canoe, slipping down the river. There's no sound of anything, maybe the occasional, you know, exotic jungle bird or something.