Even more interesting for me is that i never stop hearing Laurel, even when moving the slider all the way to “Yanny”. But around the third notch away from Yanny i hear essentially separation into two overlapping frequencies where one of them is a sick distortion. It sounds like “looowwwwrrrllll” and “yeeewwwwyyy” being played at the same time.
They seem to be randomizing the distortion, because i’ve reloaded the page and received different results. You can see the intensity of the visualizer being different. So it’s actually not great for sharing but probably good for them to get data points.
On examining the file, I’ve concluded that it’s actually a bootloader for an audio command language that runs in the cerebellum. Thank God I didn’t listen to it.
What qualifies as “older folks”? I’m 47 and can only hear “yanni”, try as I might otherwise. Using the tool you posted, I only hear “laurel” when the slider is two ticks in from the far left.
EDIT: To clarify, I very clearly hear “yanni” in the Twitter post. But the vocabulary.com entry for “laurel” recording is unmistakably “laurel”. So at this point I guess I’m not sure which one people are meant to be arguing over.
Every time this has come up, all I hear is Yanni, but with that link, I start to hear the Laurel about two notches left of center, and clear Laurel a notch from full left. If I snap back from there to center, I hear Yanni again, but if I creep it leftward a notch at a time, I continue to hear Laurel at the center point, and then it quickly changes to Yanni.
Clearly, the voices in my head are Team Yanni.
And why not? Just look at that hair!
This one is way more fun. I can switch between hearing either one at will. Which means reality is broken, and we are truly living in a simulation and we’re not on the day-one patch with extra paradox DLC.
That Brainstorm - Green Needle thing is the best discovery ever.
Well the interesting thing is that in this case there is an answer. On some subjective level i guess a rose is a rose but the people hearing Yanni are hearing it wrong. So the swarm is correct because that is actually the word.
I wonder if people who saw white and gold on the dress are more likely to hear Yanni? Maybe there is something like “contextual perception” that certain people are weaker at than others.
Now that my brain is so familiar with memory of hearing both Yanny and Laurel, I can make it hear either almost on command by pre-anticipating what I’ll hear just as I click the sound playback link.
I hear different things depending on the sound system I’m using. My car? Something like “Yarnely.” My PC? “Laurel.” Changing the levels on my car gave me both. Someone on a radio show did it on their end, and I could certainly hear both names. They explained it was adjusting the low frequency that seemed to do it, and had some audio specialist (probably a salesman from their local Best Buy) go over how mixtures of hearing loss, differing playback devices, and a crappy original recording can combine to make the whole mess. Sounded plausible, at least.
Heh. I initially wondered what your point was, simply posting the word “Yanny” for no particular reason.
Then, while reading the posts below that, from my peripheral vision, I picked up the big “L”, looked again, and saw it.
On my laptop and mobile phone I heard Laurel, and then on my wife’s mobile phone I heard Yanny. I must be right on the cusp of losing my ability to hear the frequencies required for Yanny. Being 30 sux.
