Laurel vs Yanny: what do you hear

[georgina]

This is weird. At first I listened to it several times and heard neither.
It was something in-between, like Yarry (yah-ree) or Yeary. No L or N sounds. Then I played it on a different site and clearly heard Laurel.

Completely agree. On NBC I hear Laurel. On CBS I hear Yanni. Very clear distinction.

 

[bushdianee]

I first heard it on The View and clearly heard Yanny. Then I listened to it on my phone and laptop and heard Laurel on both.

 

[lsyorke]

Saw this explanation which makes total sense.

"It’s actually saying both overlapped at the same time- “yanni” at a higher pitch, “laurel” on a lower pitch. So which one you hear is a combination of the speaker quality you’re playing it on, and which frequency you register better with ."

 

[CeruleanMoon]

How weird. According to this article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ation-real-answer_us_5afc7463e4b0779345d54ad9 the recording everyone is arguing over is actually a recording of a recording...and the degradation is what is causing some people to hear one thing and some another. The original recording is this: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel

I can only hear "Yanny" in the first recording and "Laurel" in the second. They don't switch back and forth for me at all. So far tried listening to them with headphones and on my computer speakers.

The two recordings sound nothing alike to me, the voices are each in a different pitch.

 

[DawnM]

Someone posted this to my FB. Even when I'm supposed to hear both or "Yanny" I only hear Laurel.

I only hear Laurel on the last 1/3 of the audio. However the Yanny sounds more like Yammy to me.

 

[Squirlz]

My Wife and I saw this together on the news tonight. She heard Yanny, I heard Laurel. Both plain as day.

 

[DawnM]

How weird. According to this article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ation-real-answer_us_5afc7463e4b0779345d54ad9 the recording everyone is arguing over is actually a recording of a recording...and the degradation is what is causing some people to hear one thing and some another. The original recording is this: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel

I can only hear "Yanny" in the first recording and "Laurel" in the second. They don't switch back and forth for me at all. So far tried listening to them with headphones and on my computer speakers.

The two recordings sound nothing alike to me, the voices are each in a different pitch.

Huh, and that is most clearly laurel.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I heard Laurel on Macbook Air speakers.

 

[ronandannette]

Yanny or more precisely something that sounds like "Yammy". But totally not Laurel; the first syllable is definitely "ya".

 

[sam_gordon]

I heard this on the radio while driving into work. Laurel, plain as day. 20 minutes later, they had it on the Today show... Yanny, nothing but. So I voted "other".

 

[BLTAaron]

Laurel, I then hear "Im taking ALL your money", but it is Bob Igers voice....weird.

 

[EveDallas]

Laurel. Clearly Laurel. I have no idea how anyone is hearing anything different. There is no Y sound in there at all...to my ears.

Same. I listened several times.

ETA: I played it for DS21 and he heard Yanny.

 

[midnightlouise]

Laurel. Not hearing any "y" sounds either at the beginning or at the end. I'll have to test this on my kids...

 

[Disneylover99]

Laurel for my husband and I.
Yanny for both my kids.

 

[adelaster]

Both, but laurel came first. Husband can only hear yanny- laurel is barely audible bass-y rumble. This is interesting; bet it impacts the way we all hear music. So weird!

 

[kaytieeldr]

Listening to some of the changes levels in the tweet in the article, I actually hear A R U, ay-are-you.

But normally I hear laurel.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

It was something in-between, like Yarry (yah-ree) or Yeary. No L or N sounds.

Unchanged, I hear "Laurel". When you lower the pitch, I I hear "Yarry".

 

[brertoad]

Guess it depends on where I hear it from. The link above to the dictionary sounded like Laurel, no question, the viral copy of a copy recording sounds like Yanny to me ...."ehyanney"

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

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

I hear only Yanny on this.

Someone posted this to my FB. Even when I'm supposed to hear both or "Yanny" I only hear Laurel.

I hear Yanny at first, and then when they change it to Laurel I hear Laurel.

I heard this for the first time on the radio, and it was clearly Laurel, but then when I looked up the site, I could only hear Yanny.

 

[Neesy228]