Laurel vs Yanny: what do you hear

[Kellykins1218]

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[Albort]

ya'll with hearing Yanny are hearing things... cuz i cant find the definition of that word so therefore it aint a word?

i hear Laurel... 100% of the time.

 

[Kellykins1218]

ya'll with hearing Yanny are hearing things... cuz i cant find the definition of that word so therefore it aint a word?

i hear Laurel... 100% of the time.

 

[Summer2018]

My daughter and I were watching "Watch What Happens Live" and they played it over and over again. My daughter heard "Yanni" and I heard "Laurel." BIZARRE.

 

[DaisyDuck001]

It's intriguing that we're all so intrigued by this. It's somewhat addictive and I don't know why.

How long will it be until Laurel and Yanny appear in a video as a couple running towards each other from opposite sides of a meadow, calling out each other's name?

 

[Skippy918]

I hear Yanny and DH and my son heard Laurel. We all listened to the clip at the same time.
I need to see which one dd hears.

 

[xlxo]

I hear Laural in my car and stereo system. I hear Yanny on my computer.

They say it depends on age (we lose high frequencies as we get old) and the speaker quality at reproducing certain frequencies.

 

[karensi]

I wonder how this came about. Were 2 people sitting around and played that word and then asked each other what they heard?
That seems improbable. I'm just curious as to how this whole debate started.
FWIW, I hear Yanni.

 

[sasywtch]

On tv when one of the shows played it, I heard Yanny but in my car radio, it was Laurel.

 

[CeruleanMoon]

I still don't get this. I've been reading every article that comes along, each one trying to explain what's "really" happening, but it still doesn't make any sense to me.

I keep hearing in news shows, "You can hear both names because both are really there!" But I don't see how that can be true. The spokesperson for vocabulary.com says that the original recording is of a man saying, "laurel." The man didn't have the magic ability to say two words at once. He was a human being saying one word. A word, which, by the way, doesn't share any common consonants or vowels sounds with the other word being heard. Yet I hear nothing but laurel from the vocabulary.com site, and nothing but yanni from the other recordings circulating. Even weirder is that the two voices also sound nothing alike to me. One is high pitched and robotic, the other sounds like a regular man speaking.

So that leaves the recording itself. The story goes that a person made a recording of the recording..did that degrade the quality? Yet how can it add sounds that aren't there? I keep hoping somebody out there will give us a more satisfactory explanation!