How native speakers pronounce “sounds”

Around the home, designate a place for things that are easily lost. Now, this sounds like common sense, and it is, but there's a lot of science to back this up,

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turns out to be just as sloppy and inefficient as it sounds once you get interrupted it takes an

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(Laughter) Okay, now that sounds a little flip, but make no mistake, the stakes are very high.

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"I don't think they ever plan to live together." Would you think to yourself "it sounds like they have some serious issues?" If we're honest, a lot of us would.

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(Applause) OK, look, I know how this sounds. Lawyer wins big case, gets a fancy TED talk invitation,

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And then he’d turn back to his canvas and he’d make these gentle, relaxing sounds with his paintbrush. Tap, tap ...

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My initial prompt was simply "surprise me." And yes, that's kind of as scary as it sounds. So no large company would ship something like that.

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and they would fix them. I know how naive this sounds now, but at nine or 10 years old it made sense to me.

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And all of that makes you more generous and more available. If that sounds grandiose or touchy-feely to you, let me put it to you another way.

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Or maybe it's, "Mrs. Manager, this project sounds so exciting, but I'm already at capacity.

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OK, if you're an introvert, right now you're probably thinking one hour sounds like a lot. I get it.

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might be higher or lower. But if you are thinking that one hour a day sounds like way too much because you're just way too busy,

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how to make the connections necessary for that to work. Now support sounds easy. Like we think we can just do that, because we do it all the time.

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or singing it to your favorite upbeat tune. It sounds silly, but when you play with your unhelpful thoughts, you loosen their grip.

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when they're uncomfortable talking about topics like death, since “unalive” sounds like a less scary word. And in many ways, this is nothing new.

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during the training phase. And I think this sounds as good news. But while this means that language models can be effectively applied

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for the information they read. It sounds like a brilliant future, right? (Laughter)

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Some call this emotional entanglement, and even though it sounds very scientific, I think it's a fair term,

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to help someone who needed the money. It sounds so altruistic now, but as a kid, I was really pissed at that.

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through a transition she said because even when you mess up it sounds beautiful an army Sergeant got his face shot off

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which of course, at the end of the day, is what we need to see? It sounds unrealistic that we could walk around the world with those handheld devices, like the ones my team was using in Texas.

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Pretty good, right? Sounds pretty good. No.

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that the solution to preventing "1984" often sounds a lot like "1984." So proof of personhood is a hot topic.

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without any of the connectors. I know this sounds nerdy. There's a whole industry there that goes away

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is figure out how to jam us and you win. BS: And it sounds like a lot of defense systems that exist today kind of have this type of autonomous mode?

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"They reduce the expression of music to a mathematical system." It almost sounds like he's talking about AI, doesn't it? So is AI real music?

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which is there are ways to use AI that can actually increase creativity. I think we could see new songs, new sounds, new styles that maybe we can't even imagine today.

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Every time I do, it makes me laugh! Hear the sounds of the ragtime dance! All the gals wanna get in my pants!

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does not necessarily mean you should have acted differently. It sounds very simple and it is very hard to accept. But ...

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The second benefit of using our senses has to do with intimacy. I know it sounds a little counterintuitive, intimacy and strangers,

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"sustained, escalating, reciprocal, personalistic self-disclosure." Sounds romantic, doesn't it? But the study did work.

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in their lab simply watched couples interacting. Sounds simple, but nobody had ever done that before. John: Over time, 3,000 couples came to the lab.

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We've got to stop using that phrase. It sounds so innocent, and it's like, oh, it's like a baby breaking its toys.

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and the positive outlook of the cases where you're able to help and it sounds like you're going through the same sort of thing. How do you think about scale?

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And that night she slept in her own bed, which sounds like it's too pat and perfect to be real, but it really

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amazing American spirit of like let me try this or this sounds crazy but so in the workplace you want kids who have

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certain letters sounds and i felt like i was fine writing on the page

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make it political which to me sounds like i have to draw a square but not make it a rectangle

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And it's a three-piece, a three-part story, which sounds simple, but it's actually very hard to execute.

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And it essentially is a subset of data feeding into it. And it sounds like, OK, that's good, because I have something on my side.

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and she said, "Miss, it's kind of a long story." And I said, "Charlotte, it sounds pretty interesting to me." And so she wrote her first poem,

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And with that, there's something that's called obstacle avoidance. It sounds wonderful, right? Unfortunately, it doesn't always shield us

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And it is ... stoicism. That sounds boring. (Laughter)

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I had to lead a meeting. It sounds simple, but it was a big meeting. It was a complicated debate about a nuanced part of this project.

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Here's what I mean. Feel free to close your eyes and consider where these sounds take you. (Birds chirping)

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OK. Open your eyes. Were those not the sounds you were imagining I'd play? (Laughter)

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Erotic audio stories have characters and plot, but like the sounds you just heard create a blueprint for your mind to then fill in the blanks.

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You can start with your senses. Imagine colors, textures, sounds, images, anything that gives you sensory pleasure.

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and pretty soon, with successive generations that tape sounds like garbage. Well, the same things happen to our cells.

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to end up with worse jobs and to earn less money. Now, maybe that sounds really obvious, but some of the results have been really surprising,

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to prevent that kind of runaway race dynamic happening. CA: OK, well, it sounds like you remain optimistic. What's this image here?

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take in every pattern of sensor data, sights, sounds, streams and streams of information,

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We can transmit really complicated thoughts to one another. So what I'm doing right now is, I'm making sounds with my mouth as I'm exhaling.

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And all the languages differ from one another in all kinds of ways. Some languages have different sounds, they have different vocabularies,

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(Laughter) A spiritual awakening sounds better than breakdown, but I assure you, it was a breakdown.

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How do we define if a relationship is actually meaningful or not? I mean, it sounds like understanding what these voices are saying, but are there other things we should pay attention to, to know if it's valuable,

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Despair lumps us with all of it. The story of denial sounds something like, "It's not up to me, because someone else will fix it."

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"It's not up to me, because someone else will fix it." The story of despair sounds like, "It's not up to me because it's too big to fix."

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than you might imagine that you do. Now, if that sounds preposterous to you, or, you know, kind of crazy, I'm right there with you, because frankly, if I hadn't seen the evidence for myself,

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Saying things like “You’re just my type” kind of sounds like a compliment, but it's actually centering your taste more than it is the other person.

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With thousands of lights on and then off, all in sync. (Music and electric sounds) JA: Now it's around this time

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