The Yanny v Laurel Debate

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Didn't even know about this until I spotted it on the BBC site. What do you hear? Clearly Yanny for me. Apparently it means I can hear higher frequencies than the people who hear Laurel. No idea if that is a good or bad thing, like. :lol: Any auditory boffins care to explain?
 


Isn’t it the case that younger people can hear higher frequencies than older people? Hence various councils putting high frequency noise transmitters in places where teenagers congregate?
 
Isn’t it the case that younger people can hear higher frequencies than older people? Hence various councils putting high frequency noise transmitters in places where teenagers congregate?
Apparently we lose it naturally as we get older. Working environment, loud music, and playing in bands can also cause damage earlier from what I've just been reading.
 
Isn’t it the case that younger people can hear higher frequencies than older people? Hence various councils putting high frequency noise transmitters in places where teenagers congregate?

Just like they do for rats and mice, you mean.;)

I’m deaf in one ear and half deaf in tother.
On top of that burning quite a lot of candles, so it’s Laurel for me,
If owt at all.

Apparently we lose it naturally as we get older. Working environment, loud music, and playing in bands can also cause damage earlier from what I've just been reading.

Sitting on an open tractor, blasting away at full revs for up to twelve hours a day, did fo me.
 
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Saw this earlier today, and gave it a try.
At first, I could hear Yanny, in a slightly higher, weird accent (to what came later). I tried to hear Laurel but just couldnt, so I tried using headphones - after about 4 more plays, the Y started to change to an L, and then about 2 plays later it was clearly Laurel.
Now, I can't hear Yanny even if I try.

Its a clever little trick. I wonder what they did to create that sound effect - I suspect it was engineered. The Initial letter sounds a bit off either way if you notice.
 
Its the bass in the speaker you use to listen to it on according to some boffin on Radio X this morning.

All I could hear was Laurel.
 
Laurel. I can hear high pitched stuff too, but definitely laurel for me.

Funnily enough, I played it to my Mrs (no). She didn't know the story and I played it without her knowing either word. She wasn't sure but guessed "yearly" which I was intrigued by.

Slightly more bizarre, when I was playing it, the cat (if you want) started going mental, ran up to the phone, started meowing and trying to find out what the noise was. That's not something she normally does.
 
Saw this earlier today, and gave it a try.
At first, I could hear Yanny, in a slightly higher, weird accent (to what came later). I tried to hear Laurel but just couldnt, so I tried using headphones - after about 4 more plays, the Y started to change to an L, and then about 2 plays later it was clearly Laurel.
Now, I can't hear Yanny even if I try.

Its a clever little trick. I wonder what they did to create that sound effect - I suspect it was engineered. The Initial letter sounds a bit off either way if you notice.
Pretty sure it’s an engineered sound like. I find the first bit quite indistinct, like an old ZX spectrum Currah micro speech. But the second syllable ends in an “E” sound clear as day on the radio.

Edit: Just played it a few times on my phone and it’s obvious - it says both words. Yanny is high pitched and laurel is low. Not that clever then really.
 
First listen was with head set on and it was something like Ya_laurel (from high to low). After that was constantly Laurel . With head set off but still plugged in and hanging to the side of me was Yanny ( actually more like Yammy)

Bizzare
 
Isn’t it the case that younger people can hear higher frequencies than older people? Hence various councils putting high frequency noise transmitters in places where teenagers congregate?
well it's clearly Yanny for me and I'm approaching retirement
 
Didn't even know about this until I spotted it on the BBC site. What do you hear? Clearly Yanny for me. Apparently it means I can hear higher frequencies than the people who hear Laurel. No idea if that is a good or bad thing, like. :lol: Any auditory boffins care to explain?
Won't work for me (work pc). That said, I know I can hear really high frequency noise as one of the lads found out on a recent training course. He had a 'dog whistle' app on his phone & would set it high enough that no-one could hear it, then slowly bring it down until it was annoying the shit out of me; no-one else had a clue what I was on about.

Took me ages to figure out what was going on. :oops:
 

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