"And you can hear the sounds coming up from the street, " Conisbee says.

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If you hear a woman who sounds like she's falling, just put a pillow over your ear.

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It's a misnomer because when you hear "subprime, " it sounds like, oh, so, you're getting something below the normal rate.

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Through innovative touch panel technology you could actually participate with the experience, hear the sounds coming together and feel as though you could do something with it.

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Listen to his current album, "Graduation, " which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, besting 50 Cent's "Curtis" in a much ballyhooed face-off, and you're more likely to hear the sounds of chests being thumped than backs being patted.

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This peaceful riverside enclave sparks to life during the weekly Thursday morning market, when you will hear vendors and shoppers trading the melodic sounds of Occitan (the original language of the region, spoken today by about 1.5 million people in southern France).

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It sounds like nothing you'd ever expect to hear from Brazil.

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How many times have you spent hours practicing a presentation out loud, perhaps even recording yourself to hear how it sounds?

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Using this, you can talk into the machine and have it turned into any of 50 languages, or hear what that sounds like.

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If you listen closely to the sounds of each star - by clicking on the media in this page - you'll hear a regular repeating pattern.

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