Laurel or Yanny

[The Poojer]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/science/yanny-laurel.html

Edited May 16, 2018 by The Poojer

[RaoulDuke79]

I cant see how anyone gets yanny out of that. Probably plays boths words just to screw with everyone.

[teef]

2 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

I cant see how anyone gets yanny out of that. Probably plays boths words just to screw with everyone.

i heard this minutes ago, and couldn't figure out how anyone could hear anything but yanny.  how the !@#$ does this happen?

[The Poojer]

My son and I are sitting 10 feet away and he heard Yanny and I just looked at him as if he was f***ing with me.  He swears he hears Yanny.  NYTimes has a tool that you can slide a resonance bar left and right to hear when it changes.  I made it almost all the way to the left before I heard yanny

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

 

3 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

I cant see how anyone gets yanny out of that. Probably plays boths words just to screw with everyone.

[Guffalo]

Someone was discussing this, according to what he researched, if you have full range of hearing (you can hear a wider spectrum) you will hear "Yanny", those wth a smaller spectrum will hear "Laurel" but that tool gives a great way to check how the other side hears it.

[BuffaloBill]

!@#$ers are just messing with us!

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

Laurel

[YoloinOhio]

37 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

I cant see how anyone gets yanny out of that. Probably plays boths words just to screw with everyone.

That has to be it. I’m at a loss. 

[Fadingpain]

I hear both very clearly.  There is "YANNY" in a higher frequency and it is the predominant sound being produced.  Under that, in a much deeper (lower frequency) is "LAUREL".  I hear the second syllable in "LAUREL" much more prominently than the first.

 

I can totally see why different people hear 2 different words, b/c they are both sort of there.  If your hearing cheats to higher frequencies, you'll be in the "YANNY" camp, if you pick up lower frequencies better, you'll hear LAUREL or something more like that.

 

Listen to it over an over and tell yourself to ONLY listen for 1 or the other.  You should be able to hear it.  Then listen ONLY for the other word...you should hear that too.

 

If this is supposed to be a sound clip to show people what "LAUREL" sounds like, I'd say it's pretty ****ty and could have been better.

 

[YoloinOhio]

If I move it all the way toward Yanny on the tool I hear Yeery

[Gray Beard]

I hear Laurel but when I use the tool I hear Yanny starting at about one quarter of the way from the high pitch end. 

3/4 of the range on the slider I hear Laurel, 1/4 Yanny. 

[RaoulDuke79]

Got 3 more Laurel's from the wife and kids. Although, when i was playing it form them I may have heard a slight Yanny.

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

They were playing it on the local news.  Sitting in front of the TV I heard Laurel.  

I was in my kitchen 8 feet away when they replayed it and I heard Yanni

[Wacka]

Anyone who hears Yanni is f'd in the head. ? I heard Laurel all day including the first time  this morning on the way to work,

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

 

Local poll on TV 58% heard Yanni which is what my wife hears

[Cripple Creek]

1 hour ago, Wacka said:

Anyone who hears Yanni is f'd in the head. ? I heard Laurel all day including the first time  this morning on the way to work,

But (no offense intended) you did stroke out a few years ago, right?

[Doc]

2 hours ago, Fadingpain said:

I hear both very clearly.  There is "YANNY" in a higher frequency and it is the predominant sound being produced.  Under that, in a much deeper (lower frequency) is "LAUREL".  I hear the second syllable in "LAUREL" much more prominently than the first.

 

I can totally see why different people hear 2 different words, b/c they are both sort of there.  If your hearing cheats to higher frequencies, you'll be in the "YANNY" camp, if you pick up lower frequencies better, you'll hear LAUREL or something more like that.

 

Listen to it over an over and tell yourself to ONLY listen for 1 or the other.  You should be able to hear it.  Then listen ONLY for the other word...you should hear that too.

 

If this is supposed to be a sound clip to show people what "LAUREL" sounds like, I'd say it's pretty ****ty and could have been better.

 

 

It is supposed to be a sound clip of "laurel."  And I agree. 

 

2 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

If I move it all the way toward Yanny on the tool I hear Yeery

 

I hear yawy.

Edited May 17, 2018 by Doc

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

It’s both words at different frequencies.  

[Wacka]

YesI did have a stroke.  But they played it before asking what you heard. every single time it was Laurel.  There is no way the el in laurel could sound like ee in Yanni.

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

6 minutes ago, Wacka said:

YesI did have a stroke.  But they played it before asking what you heard. every single time it was Laurel.  There is no way the el in laurel could sound like ee in Yanni.

Because it doesn’t.   

 

It’s both words at different frequencies.  

Your ears hear one and not the other 

 

[SinceThe70s]

Very cool. I heard nothing but Yanny in the original. Check out this link where they play it at different pitches:

 

https://www.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2018/05/16/laurel-yanny-pitch-zw-orig.cnn

 

My wife, son and I just listened to the different pitches. My son heard nothing but Yanny the whole time. My wife and I heard both depending on the pitch. But for the most part she heard Laurel when I heard Yanny. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

I am really really close to middle.  But lean Yanny ever so slightly.  I slide bar a little to Laurel and I can hear Laurel.

[PromoTheRobot]

There is something seriously afoot here. Why are these a thing all of a sudden? Someone discovered and is learning to exploit perceptual differences between people. That's heavy stuff. The best way to divide people is to make them unable to agree on simple stuff.

Edited May 17, 2018 by PromoTheRobot

[YoloinOhio]

Has trump weighed in yet? He seems like a Yanny. 

[Your Brown Eye]

I hear Frank

[ExiledInIllinois]

Listen to it long enough, you'll hear both.

[bbb]

I try to avoid listening to Yanni at all costs.

 

[/dev/null]

The first time I played that clip I heard Yanny

 

Then I started messing with the slider and started to move Laurel near the left of the slider.  A few minutes later I went back and played the original clip again and hear Laurel.  Moved the sliders around and hear Laurel in most positions.  

 

Freaky

 

Edited May 17, 2018 by /dev/null

[RaoulDuke79]

8 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

Has trump weighed in yet? He seems like a Yanny. 

No, but Paul Ryan did and that's good enogh for me.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/387945-paul-ryan-weighs-in-on-yanny-vs-laurel-debate%3famp

[Stevie Ray]

At high pitch I hear Rosen, and at low pitch I hear Allen.

[ricojes]

5 hours ago, bbb said:

I try to avoid listening to Yanni at all costs.

 

 

[The Poojer]

14 minutes ago, ricojes said:

 

 

Now in that clip with Shady, i clearly hear Yanny

 

[US Egg]

As far as I'm concerned, Yanni sucks and Laurel and Hardy are great.

[Greybeard]

19 hours ago, The Poojer said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/science/yanny-laurel.html

       If I put the sliders 2.5 to 3 bars to the left of Yanni I hear both.   Call me suspicious but if you recorded both words, filtering the lows out of one and the highs out of the other, that is what you would get.  One heard at the highs and one heard at the lows, and somewhere in between, both.

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 hour ago, Greybeard said:

       If I put the sliders 2.5 to 3 bars to the left of Yanni I hear both.   Call me suspicious but if you recorded both words, filtering the lows out of one and the highs out of the other, that is what you would get.  One heard at the highs and one heard at the lows, and somewhere in between, both.

This.

 

 

I can do that.  Listen for a while, then slide back to middle and still hear both.

 

But, I hear Yanny first. BUT, it has always been more of a "YAM-ME" for me.  Not sure where the they get the "n."

[26CornerBlitz]

 

[section122]

18 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

This.

 

 

I can do that.  Listen for a while, then slide back to middle and still hear both.

 

But, I hear Yanny first. BUT, it has always been more of a "YAM-ME" for me.  Not sure where the they get the "n."

 

Oh thank god lol.  Everyone is debating Laurel and Yanni and I hear Yam-me too! Wife hears Laurel.  She though I was messing with her and got annoyed until I showed her the articles.  We then proceeded to  the blue/gold dress again and I see gold she see blue and black.  Fun times, thanks internet for needlessly getting me in trouble with the missus.  I don't need your help I do just fine on my own!!!

[That's No Moon]

It depends on what you are playing it back through also.  On my phone it's laurel, when I heard it on TV later it was Yanny.  On the NY Times thing it's Laurel and I need to click right twice to hear Yanny.

 

Oh, and that dress is blue.

[ExiledInIllinois]

43 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:

It depends on what you are playing it back through also.  On my phone it's laurel, when I heard it on TV later it was Yanny.  On the NY Times thing it's Laurel and I need to click right twice to hear Yanny.

 

Oh, and that dress is blue.

Myself, ever so slightly left to hear Laurel. ? I guess I lean Left.

[ricojes]

Phone is Yanny and computer is Laurel for me...