How to pronounce“likens”in English

The translator Ros Schwartz likens it to translating a text from one language to another: the goal isn’t literal accuracy,

Everybody kind of likens it, you know, when we were kids, you wanted to join a band.

And he likens it to a cellphone charger for your mind and body.

And in fact I begin my new book with one of my favorite allegories: Plato's allegory of the cave, where he likens our existence to people trapped in a cave, being forced to

observes that we tend to think we must come up with the big idea when we speak contributing something important beautiful or Transcendent what he Likens