Yanny or Laurel?

Weird. I heard Yanny the first time, but Laurel all the times after that. I just re-listened and I can't hear Yanny at all now.

Yanny? Yann? No.

Now excuse me i must pick up a roasted chicken.

I wish I could hear the yanny but I only hear Laurel.

At first I only heard Laurel but now I can hear the "ny" of yanny. I can't make the Lau sound like Yan.

I see no recording to listen to -- where is it on the website?

You have to click on the link at OP

I'm hearing-impaired. Can someone provide a link for me?

Direct link.

She's my sister! She's my daughter! She's my sister! She's my daughter!

I can't imagine how someone could possibly hear "Laurel" as there's not a single L in there. At least with The Dress, I could understand why some were (erroneously) seeing white and gold.

I only heard Yanny at first but the last time I could hear Laurel a little. It's very low tones so it would really depend on stereo settings and the person's hearing.

I tried tinkering with the different presets in my computer's sound enhancer programme and no... still just Yanny. Must be cognitive.

It has something to do with pitch-shifting. I found a thread on Twitter where different settings produced each. Unfortunately, I can't link to it here.

Definitely not hearing Laurel. I can here the Y sound at the beginning and the end but I'm not hearing the N sound in the middle. To me, the sound in the middle is more like the double L sound in Spanish words like pollo or rellenos.

So basically I'm hearing yoy-yoy.

Highest-trending topic on Twitter right now. Here we go again...

r13 Why not?

[bold]Yanny or Laurel? The science behind the audio version of The Dress[/bold]

[quote]It has to do with your sound card, your ears, and your brain

I hear Laurel plain as day.

The article at r16 explains that it's neither and both. One of those "is it a vase or two faces" illusions. Only auditory this time.

With the pitch lowered 20% it does sound like yanny. Still at the regular pitch I don't see how you hear yanny. Y'all must have dog hearing

From the article at r16:

[quote]Older adults tend to start losing their hearing at the higher frequency ranges, which could explain why Riecke could only hear Laurel, but his eight-year-old daughter could hear Yanny. It’s a phenomenon you can mimic on a computer, he says: if you remove all the low frequencies, you hear Yanny. If you remove the high frequencies, you hear Laurel.

In short, if you hear Laurel, you're OLD.

I suffer from hyperacusis and I hear Yanny.

Here's the pitch-changing video r13 mentioned.

I’m 47 and all I heard at first was Yanny. That’s what my kids and husband hear.

But once I listened to r22’s video, all I hear is Laurel. Went back to the original and did not mess with my audio settings at all.

Fucking freaky.

r23 Eugh, I feel so frustrated that I'm unable to hear Laurel in the original even after listening to r22's video.

All I hear is Laurel

I heard Yanny first, now I only hear Laurel.

When I first hear this a couple of hours ago on another site (Slate.com) all I could hear was Yanny, loud and clear. But clicking on R16's link, all I hear is Laurel, just as clear. I think they go to the same website, and I didn't change any settings on my laptop audio, so I don't know what changed (my sense of hearing?). The first version I heard was more high-pitched, the one at R16 lower-pitched, more like a grown man's voice.

Yi-ahnny.

The only time I could hear "Laurel" is on the BuzzFeed site where someone separated out the two voices. Even knowing "Laurel" is in there I can't hear it.

Yesterday I could only hear Laurel. This morning the first thing I could hear was only yanny. Took me a sec to hear Laurel. So relieved that I can hear both. Like having one of those itches "inside" one's leg that you can't scratch but finally you find the place on your leg that you scratch to get the itch.

Yeanny.

To the current 12.2% who heard nothing, do you know why you heard nothing? I had to listen to it from Chrome. It would not play in Firefox.

I just can't hear a trace of "yanny." It's a solid "laurel" for me.

Good God! Do people not have anything better to do?

Both are there. When I first heard it Yanny was quite evident. But try concentrating on staring at the words and tuning in to the sounds. Laurel will come out (lower tones mostly it seems). Yanny will fade into the background. Then you will hear a pronounced "Laurel" but a echo of "Yanny" (higher pitched). I was not so successful to tune back to the reverse.

This may require above average sense perception, or more trained listening skills. I bet classically/academically trained musicians should be able to hear both.

I heard laurel, then yanny, but it's back to laurel and I can't hear yanny anymore.

Laurel

So maybe the Laurel people are from one timeline and the Yanny people are from a different timeline.

Oh, it's one of those cute troll memes that either have multiple versions of the same file floating around (hence the contradictory answers), or trolls insisting that they see or hear the file saying or displaying the opposite of what it's saying or showing.

So I'll play along. "That clip clearly says 'Yanny'!!! I don't know where people are hearing 'Laurel'! They must be crazy!!! Can't you hear it? Geeeeeezzzz...."

Did I do it right?

I think this is some Quantum reality test. Some kind of Mandela Effect. Maybe we are all living in a kind of fluid reality where some shift to laurel and some shift to Yanny. (or maybe its just a computerized voice saying both at different tones....)

Try this tool on the NY Times site. When I first heard the clip on the news this morning I could ONLY year Yanni. I could not imagine how anyone could hear Laurel. I played around with the slider on the NY Times site where you can amplify the Yanni or Laurel sound. Then I could only hear Laurel even when I put the slider back in the middle (the original setting). I thought they were messing with me. I went back to other sites where I could only hear Yanni, and now I can clearly hear Laurel but can force myself to hear Yanni if I focus on it. It's like once you hear Laurel you can't go back. VERY WEIRD.

Yarry.

Think of Laurel, but laugh-don't cry.

@Marlee Matlin

Yanny? Laurel? Don't ask me, I can't hear sh*t.

I had to slide the bar way over to the right to begin hearing the second voice say YannY.

OMG this is freaking me the fuck out!!! I could ONLY hear Yanni, then I did the slider bar and could ONLY hear Laurel, now I can hear both at the same time. I think I am going INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This thing is completely fucking with my brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I clearly hear Cheryl. Cheryl. Cheryl.

Only heard Yanny, but once you hear Laurel, there's no going back to Yanny.

I hear "yammy", actually.

I heard it as Yanny on the radio this morning but I hear Laurel with all the online clips.

I heard Hardy

Sounds like an old Russian hag saying Yanny. I'm 45 years old.

I only hear Laurel.

I hear ANAL

Does it have something to do with age?

There has got to be different frequencies because on this one I only hear Yanni, on the Daily Mail only Laurel. Today Show I heard Laurel but then when I went back I heard Yanni. This guy plays with the frequencies and I could clearly hear both.

Only hear Laurel, plain as the knob on a door. Perhaps I have a mental block, as I don't like "hearing" Yanni!

Where did this originate? Are there any links that aren't just Twitter posts? How the hell do I know if I'm listening to the original audio and not some doctored reTweet? Christ I hate Twitter.

First several times I heard reports about this on the news, I heard Yanny.

Later that day, when it was repeated on the news yet again, I heard Laurel.

I don't know who the FUCK is hearing Yanny but it's clearly Laurel and no Yanny at all. I played for others and they were saying Yanny and I was like what the hell is wrong with you.

You can't doctor a retweet, r59.

The lady who tweeted it got it off Reddit, and it was apparently originally created by some high schoolers. The "laurel" is from a dictionary pronunciation site, the "yanny" from a computer voice site. They just edited them together.

And this should be the original posting if you're really concerned about authenticity.

I watch TV listening on headphones.

On one set watching the news last night I clearly heard "Laurel".

On the other this morning, I clearly heard "Yanni."

r59, one sight has the explanation. Girl was doing her homework using vocabulary.com and the word was LAUREL and she plaid the pronunciation of the world and it came out Yanny, she posted her confusion on social media, like we do today, and it went viral.

the original.

I could only hear Laurel. I think young ears hear Yanny but older ears hear Laurel.

It is meant to be Laurel

Vanjie. Miss Vanjie. Miss VANJIE.

Wow, they really didn't alter the original from the vocabulary site at all.

[quote] The audio clip originated from a 2007 recording of the word "Laurel" from Vocabulary.com.[2][3] The spread of the audio clip as an illusion most likely originated from a student of Flowery Branch High School when she posted the illusion on Instagram on May 11, 2018

So, laurel is the correct one.

I love to eat out at Laurel's

Turns out that if you don’t hear Yanny you can’t hear high frequency.

R57, same here. On the same computer I hear Yanni clearly on some links, but Laurel clearly on others. Surely my ears aren't alternating what frequencies I can hear?

So the dictionary.com folks are the ultimate trolls. In the best way.

^ Oops, I mean the vocabulary.com folks.

This is like when everyone argued about whether the dress was beige or blue.

Why do we do this?

As annoying as this is, I think it's pretty interesting. Took a while but I hear both.

I hear them both at the same time. It's like Yanny is the treble and Laurel is the bass.

I hear “CumDump”.

It's been 2 days and I'm STILL fucking obsessed with this. Get this evil out of my head!!!!!!!!!

This one is crazier

I hear green needle and then brainstorm, they seem to alternate

I don't hear brainstorm at all.

R82, that gives me chills.

[quote] Oh, it's one of those cute troll memes that either have multiple versions of the same file floating around (hence the contradictory answers),

Bingo.

I only hear Laurel.

Proven to be not true R73. It is more dependent upon the speakers or headphones one is listening to really.

Here, the NYT has a tool on this article page so you can adjust the frequencies until you hear one or the other. Not only that, but you can "vote on" when you hear the word change!

My "Yanny/Laurel critical point" is two ticks left of center.

Oh, forgot to mention: I just turned 45 (yesterday!) and am listening on my eight-year-old 42" Vizio television which doubles as my computer monitor.

I hear "brain needle", which is conjuring up images of Frances Farmer in the sanitarium so I'm gonna quit this game for now.

R89, it changes for me. The longer I listen to the full Yanni on the right, the sooner it becomes Laurel on the left.

Heard it on the news yesterday and heard Yanny, now I hear only Laurel.

There's an objectively correct answer: Laurel.

If you're not hearing "Laurel" then either your hearing is fucked, up, your brain is fucked up, or the speakers/headphones/earbuds you're using are fucked up.

R82 heard both

I thought it was Yenni, the sexter of gay teens.

I hear “Yarry.” Am I dying?

If you only hear Yanny, try looking at the word 'Laurel' as you listen, it may trigger you to hear Laurel.

I was Yanny first then tried this, and now I can hear both, if I focus in on one over the other.

All I can hear is something about something stinking.

I had a hearing test many years ago (pre-internet) and was told that I do not hear high frequencies/high-pitched sounds, which by the way, the ones I can hear annoy me like nails on a chalkboard. I had no idea I couldn't hear high frequencies / pitches until I was told that by the doctor. FWIW, I heard Laurel.

r100 - similar to you, I do not hear the highest pitches in one ear. The other ear is normal. I heard Laurel. In the NY Times thing, I had to move it all the way to the right to hear Yanny.

But what's weird is then when I slid it back left, I COULD hear "Yanny" almost half of the way up. The sound is low quality so the brain is filling the details in different ways.

This is more of a brain filter issue for me. I could not hear Yanny at first. Once I "primed" my brain to hear Yanny using the adjustable sound through the NYT link, I was able to hear Yanny and Laurel at the same time on the default setting and original audio clip..

Once possibility pulled out of my ass is that I spent many years around high frequency noises coming from computers (fans, electronics, etc.), so my brain may have learned to just automatically tune those noises out. Once my brain was more clearly given a signal (Yanny) that was relevant and not noise I was able to distinguish the higher frequency sounds for a while.

This effect has a shelf life though. After a few minutes of not listening, I have to re-prime my brain using the adjustable sound to re-hear Yanny and then I can hear both at the same time on the original setting. The brain is a weird thing.

For some trying to hear both at the same time, use the link with the slider. Move it until you hear the Laurel or Yanny you are not hearing and then slow move it toward the center in small steps, taking a few seconds at each step to hear both sounds. This might let you hear both sounds at the same time on the middle setting.

Um R89, I posted that on Wednesday and we discussed it already. Please try to keep up. You're only 2 days behind schedule. Thanks hun.

Oops, forgot to sign my post 103 as R42.

Wow, R103 is R42 and is whining that we overlooked his link, shocker!

Get over it, bitch.

R82 is far freakier.

I am hearing “Yammy” consistently and I am 55 yo.

I hear "laurel" every time.

I hear Yarry. I know I mentioned this before. Fuck you, I’m saying it again!

Calm down nobody of a CUNT @ R105. You're not all that. Dismissed. Bye Felicia!

At first I could only hear Yanny, but now I can hear both.

I hear Gary.

Paul is dead! Paul is dead!

Heard both from the get go..

And that's with a twenty decibel loss in my left ear in the speech perception range. Maybe that's why I'm hearing both sounds equally.

I made masking noises to block one sound or the other. A hissing sound masked 'yanny', and humming at about the same frequency as the narrator's voice muted 'laurel'.

Turn me on, R113 Hehe.

I hear laurel, and I am old. All is well in the universe.

Loni

What fresh hell is this?

Wouldn't it be more effective to not give people suggestions as to what they may hear, first?

I hear both clearly depending on the sound source.

Heard Yanny the first time, but can only hear Laurel. I've tried forcing myself to hear Yanny again, but I can't :[.

r89 On the NYT test, I hear Yanny no matter where I put the slider.

I hear "Yanny" first, at a high pitch, then almost instantly, a low-sounding "Laurel" at a very low volume. I would not hear "Laurel" if I were not coached to do so, though.

Me too r121 and I thought I was done with this fuckery, but it still entrances me for some sad reason. Are we dying? Checked with my 70 year old mum and she heard Yanny until 2 clicks near the Laurel side.

I hear TRANNY