Yanny or Laurel

All I know is my social media is suddenly a lot more disconcerting.

I guess what is changing is the ambient noise level around me (open-plan office), and I have no control over that. So maybe that's having an effect. Back to Laurel for now!

I turned my speakers up and now I hear "Laurel" on those too.

Listened on headphones, heard "Laurel" clear as day, wondered why this was even a question.

Listened on computer speakers, hear "Yanny" clear as day, wondered why this was even a question.

the text-to-speech aspect is where I think the high pitch comes from, which is inaudible in the original file and original sample rate, but when downsampled it drops into audible range and subsumes the "dark l" under this upper midrange "eea" sound

humans do not make secret >22khz noises when they pronounce velarized alveolar lateral approximants, at least as far as I understand things

in the car : yanny.
on laptop just now : laurel

my favorite tts artifact was when Microsoft Sam made a weird whooshing sound when you tried to make it say 'soy'

haven't tried it in ages but i assume it s been fixed by now

There's also an element of this that is about perception, though. Once I heard "Laurel", I could still hear it that way even when I turned the volume down again.

where is option ‘hen fap’

Played this in OUTER SPACE where everyone could hear Yanny.

https://www.nerdreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/23569786-Case-closed-grunge-red-stamp-Stock-Photo.jpg

I'm still baffled that people cannot hear Laurel, when it sounds completely clear and like a normal voice saying that name. Meanwhile Yanny just sounds like some kind of faint whispering that could easily be just noise or random sound artifacts that vaguely resemble speech.

Yeah, like a weird noise your brain makes up when you're falling asleep.

i know it's cool not to care about this, but i do get worried that i cannot make it into "yanny" or conceive of making it into a "yanny." i sorta just wanna loop it and listen til if finally yann-ify it.

I predict that Yanny will be the hot new baby name of 2018

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, May 16, 2018 9:16 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok lol

The experience of Tarfumes is close to mine.

To do a serious analysis one would also need to cross-reference every respondent with age and listening environment.

Like, there are those frequency things only audible to certain age ranges like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito

Put on some bass-y music and then listen to it again?

xp to hunt3r

https://ring.cdandlp.com/themusiccollector/photo_grande/114965794.jpg

I see Laurel Live at the Acropolis

have listened on phone speakers and with headphones and through an amp while twiddling the bass and treble and have yet to hear anything that sounds remotely like laurel.

I'm still baffled that people cannot hear Laurel, when it sounds completely clear and like a normal voice saying that name. Meanwhile Yanny just sounds like some kind of faint whispering that could easily be just noise or random sound artifacts that vaguely resemble speech.

When I heard it as "yanny", it didn't sound very much like a normal human voice tbc. I don't think anyone has said otherwise.

yanny

I can't turn my laurel into a yanny

*sighs*

*double-checks search rankings*

*sighs again*

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— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) May 16, 2018

lol

ok i clicked on a link it's a straight yanny for me and i'm convinced it's a different recording, the voice is higher and different. lol non bass-y music needed. ~success~ i guess.

I tried playing neil young while listening to it, now I just have him singing about yanny canyon stuck in my head

hey y'all know what my life is like now, i mishear like 20% of words for some reason. at least in english i can kinda fill in the context clues but in languages i'm not fluent i am worthless. everyone i know is like "i can understand frnech but i can't speak it" and i'm like HOW. I CAN ONLY SPEAK IT

It was solidly Laurel for me all afternoon. Now the office is 80% empty and quiet, Yanny is back in town. (I've been checking the same MP3 every 20min or so all day).

Yanny is back in town

Would love to hear the Thin Lizzy version of this.

oh man rufus just totally heard yanny! i don't get it at all....

like, it was totally immediate for him too. no question.

I was very surprised my son couldn't hear Laurel.

And now Laurel. What a day.

kill me

when people do the demonstrations and cut the lows i still hear laurel

Ok fine, so in this one I hear yanny first, and then when it's slowed down at :11 I start to hear laurel. But other people apparently hear the opposite, so idk.

Okay once I sped it up I was able to hear Yanny but all I could hear was Laurel before. pic.twitter.com/4LQR2tnBun

— milinda (@FrcknZazzed) May 16, 2018

Wait I mean the reverse, the sped-up version is the first time I've been able to hear it as laurel, but then back to yanny upon slowing down

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html

If I start at the Yanny end, it takes until a few segments over to hear Laurel.

Important development

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— Chuck Tingle (@ChuckTingle) May 16, 2018

that nyt thing is good, the switch point for me, at which i can mentally control which i hear, is at 1.65 bars to the left of center.

I voted for yanni but since then I have been able to switch back and forth between them

friend hears Yarry

^ thats what i heard first

the crazy thing about the nyt slider is that the Y/L crossover point varies all over the place for me, depending on the direction I'm sliding from and/or which word has just been repeating

^^

I'm Laurel all the way; even far left on the NYT slider sounds more like "yrrlrrl" than "yanny"

sounds like "FREMME NEPPA VENETTE" to me

callback is pretty PRO imo

Good comeback, System.

Lulz

Blame Korg

― El Tomboto, Friday, 18 May 2018 23:57 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(also probably the name of some character in the wookieepedia)

― El Tomboto, Friday, 18 May 2018 23:58 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's in thor: ragnarok actually

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic4.uk.businessinsider.com%2Fimage%2F59fc89555b026004411baabb-1190-625%2Fhow-this-lesser-known-marvel-character-became-a-scene-stealer-in-thor-ragnarok.jpg&f=1

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, May 18, 2018 8:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fuck you
― El Tomboto, Saturday, May 19, 2018 12:42 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, May 19, 2018 8:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Good comeback, System.
― Now I know my ABCs. Next time won't you scream at me? (Old Lunch), Saturday, May 19, 2018 8:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not again :-/

"yes, that sounds like an excellent idea/yes, that's a f*cking excellent idea"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dQAlywMvCQ

I like that one since I can easily hear either option.

I hear "guinea pig".

I unapologetically love this stupid stuff

lol it's whichever you want to hear