Posted on 05/17/2018 1:26:19 PM PDT by Jane Long
There’s a new debate storming the internet that’s reminiscent of the furor over that white and gold dress back in 2015 (or was it blue and back?) People are torn over an audio clip of a computer-generated voice, with some listeners saying they hear the word ‘Laurel’ in a deep male voice, and others saying they hear ‘Yanny’ in a higher-pitch. The recording went viral after it first surfaced on Reddit earlier this week. It was later posted on Twitter, where it has been liked more than 50,000 times and stoked a fierce debate.....
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Ive only heard it on TV and every time I hear Yanny
I hear Zamfir master of the pan flute
Yes.
But, it’s also been on every other news source (Fox News, local news, etc.)...this was the first link I found with an audio link.
LOL I remember when George Carlin quipped about a new Beatles album, that when you play it backwards at the wrong speed you’ll hear a voice saying “Hey dummy you’re playing this record backwards at the wrong speed!”
Why am I not surprised???
laurel. on my laptop
Sounds like a line from a modern day Wichita Lineman :-)
Yanny. It’s supposed to be if you hear high frequencies you hear yanny.
http://www.khq.com/story/38209525/laurel-or-yanny-what-do-you-hear
If you ARE Yanni you hear Yanni.
http://www.time.com/5280632/yanni-on-yanny-vs-laurel/
I hear both at the same time, although yanny is louder than laurel. I think all it means is that I hear both high frequency and bass.
What?!
Plain as day I hear Laurel.
Depends upon the audio speed. Not all people hear sound vibrations at the same speed. If a violin and a piano make sound waves with the same amplitude and frequency, how come they sound so different? If the waves are identical, why don’t the two instruments sound exactly the same?
There’s a basic wave with a certain amplitude and pitch, called the fundamental, and on top of that there are lots of higher and lower-pitched sounds called harmonics/overtones or petal tones. Each harmonic has a frequency that’s exactly two, three, four, or however many times higher or lower than the fundamental.
Every time there is a sound, you “can” hear all of these if you have super hearing. Most people are limited to a few notes above or below the fundamental. Trained musicians hear more. Some animals much more and computers unlimited.
I listened to an experiment with this entry done on a conservative station in the northwest, and with the speed of the sound sped up or lowered down, I heard both the words they are describing, Laurel and Yanny. I do not know which one is harder to hear or more impressive. But that’s the difference. It is just natures way of messing with you.
And something for the media to stall time to try to hide from the NY Times admittance there is no smoking gun with Trump and he broke no law to be ostracized for in print. And that the federal government let the real criminals go with illegal use of computers and attempts to burn Trump during the election by gaining information from sources inside and outside the white house and the DNC while spending billions of taxpayer dollars on an investigation using questionable sources and planted people. Smoke and mirrors.
rwood
I heard a McDonald’s commercial.
I’ve heard both. Yanny on this link. Laurel on the radio.
I agree... Yammy when I heard it on tv and Laurel when I play it on computer.
Another poster mentioned this - hearing it differently from different sources. Probably to due with the frequency response of the source and/or speakers. My kids were doing this the other day. My son could hear both. My daughters hears the higher pitched one. Then when my son explained the lower voice one, one daughter could hear both, and the other daughter could only hear the low-pitched one! (Initially only hearing the high pitched one!!??)
Reminds me of those visual tricks with the various things - do you see the beautiful gal or the ugly hag? I think there are some things that you can do to confuse your sense of touch as well - can’t recall what they are now.
I agree with your post most of all. It is true that the sound packet can be broken down into different harmonics, our brains also Hear what we hear by identification. On our TV we tried the sound repeatedly with the base and treble set at different points and my wife kept hearing the Y sound while I heard the L sound.
I am told that the recognition of the Y and the L are similar in our brains and we can “flip” this illusion in the same way that optical illusions can flip — for example the old hag and the young lady.
I did play it backwards, and I heard “Paul is dead.”
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