Laurel or Yanny

[nigelwright7557]

I hear "Yelly"

 

[Cal Weldon]

I heard nothing but laurel on a few different sources earlier in the day. We now are cooking in the kitchen, with some noise and other distractions, about 15 feet from the home theatre and I asked my wife to judge as it's made the evening news. We both clearly heard Yanny.

Go figure.

 

[Pano]

I seems to have to do with frequency response. If the fundamentals are missing or attenuated, you'll hear Yanny or something similar. Also, if you are lacking in high frequency hearing, meaning that the harmonics are not as pronounced, you'll likely hear Laurel.

 

[TheGimp]

Explanation on NBC news tonight was that it is very dependent on the playback channel frequency response.

Lack of LF response Yanny.

Lack of HF response Laurel.

I still get the same results on my tube amp and speakers I have hooked to the computer.

Looks like I spent too much time looking it up and Pano beat me to it.

 

[planet10]

Or since, IIRC someone said, that it is a computer generated voice, maybe a digital artifact that given its non-natural sounding, it could affect us in strange ways.

dave

 

[jneutron]

For me, it is entirely dependent on what frequency band I focus on.
Jn

 

[Cal Weldon]

Gimp, there must be more to it.

When I listened on my computer speakers (bad speakers), the iPad (bad speaker), and in my car (good speakers), it was laurel. Not a hint of anything else but I was close in all occasions.

When listening from the kitchen to the TV, with good quality speakers it was yanny. Not a hint of anything else.

 

[rabbitz]

yarry - Nexus 9 speaker or headphone
yanny - computer > Dragonfly > DTA-2 > SB65WBAC
laurel - with top octaves removed at CNET

Laurel or Yanny: What's the origin of the audio clip that's dividing opinion? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Yanny or Laurel? The internet is fighting over this robot's mysterious word - CNET

BTW, I can only hear to 10kHz.

 

[Mooly]

BBC News explanation on this:

Yanny or laurel: The sound dividing the internet - BBC News

 

[gpauk]

Not really a proper explanation just a rather poor you tube link - though it did tell us where the clip originated at least - and that it's meant to be "laurel".
Anything that starts "divided the internet" or "broke the internet" gets my teeth grinding..
At least one of the earlier links showed the tone changes needed to make it change for them - except that didn't work for me.
The only reliable way to switch between the two words for me is the total pitch shift in the OP link.

 

[jackinnj]

Tell me what you hear:
YouTube

 

[Pano]

And of course this:
YouTube

 

[jackinnj]

That movie could never be made in this environment, nor could Seinfeld be produced!

 

[popilin]

This is totally weird, my PC speakers are Thonet&Vander, my wife clearly listen Laurel and I clearly listen Yanny...

 

[Brinkman]

Green needle or brainstorm?
YouTube

 

[nigelwright7557]

This is totally weird, my PC speakers are Thonet&Vander, my wife clearly listen Laurel and I clearly listen Yanny...

I get neither I get "Yelly".

 

[nigelwright7557]

Laurel & Hardy probably the best actors/comedians ever.
I rarely laugh at TV but they can crack me up.

Stan Laurel is incredible. In fact he was born about 90 miles from me at Ulverston. He has a statue there.

 

[Pano]

I get neither I get "Yelly".

Similar for me, never the N sound. I hear the R as R, it's the initial and final L that turn into Y. It's a very American L sound, formed toward the back of the throat.

 

[RajkoM]

Clear "Yanny"

 

[tubesguy]

You "Yanny" guys are clearly nuts.