[McD] James Posted May 15, 2018 (edited) This is the whole internet debate over the colour of that dress all over again, only in audio form. I can only hear Laurel. https://www.vox.com/2018/5/15/17357684/yanny-or-laurel-audio 1 Share this post Link to post
wheresthebeef Posted May 16, 2018 I could understand why people would wrongly see the white and gold. I can not fathom how anyone hears Yanny 0 Share this post Link to post
Xyzzу Posted May 16, 2018 I can actually hear both if I imagine it saying one or the other. Like, it depends on what parts of the audio pronunciation you focus your hearing on I guess. I heard Yanny first so I voted for that. 0 Share this post Link to post
SGS Man Posted May 16, 2018 "Yanny". I can't even remotely hear "Laurel". Can't wait for someone to explain this one! 2 Share this post Link to post
leodoom85 Posted May 16, 2018 Low frequency voice: Laurel High frequency voice: Yanny So, both... 6 Share this post Link to post
leodoom85 Posted May 16, 2018 Just now, NoisyVelvet said: dunno. 'sounds like a doom monster. leruaL raeh tsum uoy, emag eht niw oT 6 Share this post Link to post
Caffeine Freak Posted May 16, 2018 I heard 'yanny' at first, without question. But then I let the clip continue to repeat, probably about 30 or so times, and before it had played more than half a dozen times I could begin to hear the emergence of different sounds, sort of like when you hear a phrase repeated non-stop and then it kind of melts together. I can clearly hear 'laurel' now, even though 'yanny' wants to override it in my brain. If I just let it play on repeat I can hear both at once. Pretty neat. I'm sure I would never had heard it if I didn't know to be looking for it, though. 2 Share this post Link to post
StoneMason Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) This is screwing with my head. It keeps going back and forth for me. EDIT: Now I'm hearing both at the same time. 4 Share this post Link to post
Empyre Posted May 16, 2018 When it is pitch shifted upwards, I hear Laurel, but when unedited or shifted down, I hear Yanny. I have tried, but I have never been able to see the dress anything other than blue and black. 1 Share this post Link to post
chungy Posted May 16, 2018 I don't know how it's possible to hear "Laurel" from that clip. It's only Yanny to me. 2 Share this post Link to post
Arctangent Posted May 16, 2018 At first it was Yanny, then it flunctuated between Yarry and Yaurel until it settled on Yaurel. Doesn't really seem to me like it could shift to starting with an L sound, though, at least not with my ears. ... Also, honestly, I found the voice kinda creepy. 1 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted May 16, 2018 So this was artificially created to make people talk, not discovered by accident? 1 Share this post Link to post
GarrettChan Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) I'm with those who can't remotely hear laurel... It's definitely Yanny to me. Then I got to some links in the facebook or twitter stuff. When people are messing around the playback speed and bass sound, I can hear laurel. 1 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) At default speed I hear 'Laurel', but once it's slowed down by 30% it becomes a very clear 'Yanny'. I've run into this bizarre shit before. In this clip (9 seconds in) my friend Tomas swears that Sonic is saying "Here I'll show you", however to my ears it's very clearly "Now I'll show you". The human brain is weird. 1 Share this post Link to post
Dragonfly Posted May 16, 2018 44 minutes ago, JudgeDeadd said: Yelly ^ This. Or possibly more accurate - The word "Yearly" said with a strange accent/voice. 1 Share this post Link to post
TheUltimateDoomer666 Posted May 16, 2018 Only "yanny". 47 minutes ago, Doomkid said: In this clip (9 seconds in) my friend Tomas swears that Sonic is saying "Here I'll show you", I can hear that too, lol. 2 Share this post Link to post
Poncho Posted May 16, 2018 I can ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, CLEARLY hear Yanny. 2 Share this post Link to post
KVELLER Posted May 16, 2018 Huh, I also hear both... I did hear Yanny the first time around, though. 0 Share this post Link to post
ShoDemo Posted May 16, 2018 When I played the main video, I just heard Yanny. Basically something close to Yanny. It was more like Yammy, but still it is closer to Yanny. Then I heard the sounds from the six links posted below, that were saying 30% slower, 20% slower, e.t.c. and I found it weird, but I heard Yanny in the first 3 and Laurel in the last 3. But the difference seemed huge. I was expecting the 2 things to be really close or something, but they are worlds apart. Read from the article that it is a difference in how much bass you play the sound with, but I can't comprehend that right now. Besides, I am not a sound engineer or anything... 0 Share this post Link to post
Empyre Posted May 16, 2018 I watched a YouTube video where somebody analyzed that sound, and it turns out that it says one word at a high pitch and another word at a low pitch at the same time. This cannot happen naturally. Somebody constructed the sound that way. 3 Share this post Link to post