Yanny or Laurel?

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My computer said “Laurel”, very clearly.
My understanding is that what you hear depends heavily on the speakers of the device on which you listen and how much bass they have.
 
In my house

I hear Yanny, and nothing else.

My husband hears Mary or Larry. :woman_shrugging:t2:

My oldest son hears Laurel

My youngest son hears Yarry.

My daughter hears a man clearing his throat. No words clearly.
 
I’m seeing a duck too. Not a real duck. More like a rubber ducky. Most people see the numeral 8. People with red-green color blindness see 3.

Strictly speaking, this kind of test is not valid on computer or phone displays without color calibration. I believe the clinical color-vision test is administered with standard printed cards illuminated in the right kind of lighting.
 
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I couldn’t resist that comment. 👿 I had suspected my son had a color issue, and had him tested… at the doc’s office, it was clear he couldn’t see certain of the figures that were clearly evident to me.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
My computer said “Laurel”, very clearly.
My understanding is that what you hear depends heavily on the speakers of the device on which you listen and how much bass they have.
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The speakers could certainly make a difference.

However, I heard “yanny” on my car radio at 3:55.

Two hours later, after my ears had been assaulted by a middle-school drummer, I heard “laurel” on that same car radio.

My ears are back to hearing “yanny” again.

As someone who’s heard both, I can say that “yanny” and “laurel” sound much different in both pitch and quality.

The “a” in yanny is like “man.” It sounds like a high male voice, and kind of nasal.

When I heard laurel, the male voice sounded lower and smoother.

I think this is definitely a case of an individual’s hearing, both the range of pitch we can hear, and whether our brain’s tune in to higher or lower pitches. As an elementary school teacher, it’s no wonder I’m more tuned in to higher pitches, like the voices of my wee ones.

Just my two cents.

But I’m certain a couple dozen doctoral candidates just found their dissertation topic in the past 24 hours. 😃
 
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i closed my eyes and put the Kindle to my left ear and clearly heard Laurel.
 
Mine said Yanny, Tis-Bearself, I heard it was frequency perception. Earlier on TV I heard Laurel… also if played at slightly different speed… you can hear it differently.
 
That one just kept repeating “Yanni, Yanni, Yanni” Ollie.
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On a different note,does anyone still hear the high pitched noise at times on the tv? Sometimes I still do,and the teenagers definitely do.In the city recently I screwed my eyes up and grimaced at that weird metallic noise ,high pitched ,as a car went by the footpath slowly.
 
The NYT has a slider where you can change the frequency to make it go from Laurel to Yanny. I used the slider on my iPhone and it did change when I slid it towards Yanny, although instead of “Yanny” it sounded more like “Yee-arry”. When I did the same thing on my laptop, it stayed “Laurel” until I got almost to the end of the slider toward “Yee-arry”. This isn’t my “perception”, it’s the speakers on my devices.
 
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