Yanny vs Laurel - which do you hear?

[nickyboy]

That's reassuring as even after all that techno I still don't hear 'laurel'. What I do hear is 'yearly' or 'yelly' or something. So out of the two options it's 'yanny', but in a stupid accent and not what I would have said had it not been written down in front of me.

Has anybody tried the Mariah Carey Christmas one?

Durrrrr...I got it the wrong way around

Old farts hear "Yanny", young bucks hear "Laurel"

Son#2 says "How can you possibly hear Yanny, he's saying Laurel. It's nothing like Yanny"

 

[MossCommuter]

Durrrrr...I got it the wrong way around

Old farts hear "Yanny", young bucks hear "Laurel"

Son#2 says "How can you possibly hear Yanny, he's saying Laurel. It's nothing like Yanny"

This old fart hears "Laurel"

 

[PK99]

Apparently it's down to your ability to hear higher pitch frequencies

If you strip out the high pitched stuff it sounds like "Laurel"

I'm hearing "Yanny" despite having given my hearing a frightful bashing in nightclubs in the past

all explained here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...hear-both-why-sound-pitch-voice-a8353706.html

 

[MossCommuter]

all explained here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...hear-both-why-sound-pitch-voice-a8353706.html

Brilliant! Thanks

 

[winjim]

all explained here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...hear-both-why-sound-pitch-voice-a8353706.html

Was that the thing at the very beginning? Because I definitely heard 'laurel' that time.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Laurel for me

 

[swee'pea99]

Durrrrr...I got it the wrong way around

Old farts hear "Yanny", young bucks hear "Laurel"

Son#2 says "How can you possibly hear Yanny, he's saying Laurel. It's nothing like Yanny"

Not according to that Independent story:

"The difference seems to arise because the voice that says "Laurel" is deeper than the one that says "Yanny". So people will be predisposed to hearing one or the other, for a variety of reasons.

Younger people, for instance, are generally better at hearing higher sounds. So younger people will be more likely to hear the Yanny voice."

 

[winjim]

OK, I just put my fingers in my ears to see if it would change and now I can only hear 'laurel', even though I've taken them out again.

I need to change my vote.

 

[Andrew_P]

Yerry

 

[Crackle]

Fascinating - I can hear both, though I had to transfer to the computer connected to the NAD amp and Wharfedales.

Well, when I say fascinating......

 

[Levo-Lon]

Isn't this similar to the music frequency played in public ares to deter groups of youths.

They play something kids will hate at a certain pitch.
Older people cant hear it but the kids teens can and usually disperse.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Yayyyyy! I is young!

 

[winjim]

OK, I just put my fingers in my ears to see if it would change and now I can only hear 'laurel', even though I've taken them out again.

I need to change my vote.

Right, I went away for a bit, listened to Hole on the radio and now it says 'yanny' again.

I'm forty years old so I was a teenager when 'Live Through This' came out. Maybe that's got something to do with it...

 

[flake99please]

Sounds like Yairee (Cherry without the 'ch', replaced with a 'Y'). My 8 year old son hears the same as me).

 

[Sea of vapours]

At first I heard Yanny, on the radio, playing through hifi. Then I heard Laurel, playing from a web site on a laptop. The same web site version played through the hifi gives me Yanny again and that's totally consistent on playing it in each way five times. Interesting, and I can't vote since I can hear both depending on the medium used.