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Yanny or laurel

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  • #62
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Laurel
    I haar Yanny at first but if I try to hear Laurel I can hear that too. Maybe I’m aurallydexterous


  • #63
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,107 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Laurel
    Gavlor wrote: »
    I hear yally..... what do I win?

    An abortion...

    ..... Oops, wrong thread, my bad.


  • #64
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/laurel-yanny-video-explained-hear-both-why-sound-pitch-voice-a8353706.html


  • #65
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Laurel
    Miss Vangie


  • #66
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    When I heard this on the TV 3 news this evening I heard Yanny. Shortly afterwards I tried the link in the OP and I heard Laural.


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  • #67
    17togo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭17togo


    I just played this for my young fella, he's 6, I didn't tell him what the two choices were, just asked him what he heard. He's clearly insane and needs psychiatric help because he said he heard yanny!!! :-)
    I hear laurel!

    Crazy how the brain works!!!


  • #68
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭Stigura


    " Yerrow " :confused:

    Now my fcuking brain hurts!


  • #69
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    To my ears it's saying Laurel all day every day.


    Thread needs a poll.


  • #70
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    I'm able to hear both! Got Yanny first, but then it shifted to Laurel.

    If it helps anyone, the 'Yanny' voice sounds kind of high pitched like a character in some Spongebob type cartoon while the 'Laurel' voice is a lot deeper and more refined sounding At first I only had my right earphone in when it sounded a lot like Yanny, but I'm guessing it is actually intended to be Laurel.


  • #71
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Laurel
    Just played the clip where the guy slowed it down and I heard Laurel for the first 2 instances!
    Tried again.... Yanny!

    Mind blown


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  • #72
    Ari Odd Symmetry
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Ari Odd Symmetry


    yally...
    i listened to the up 20% one, that's very clear as laurel to me. that's funny


  • #73
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    I hear dead people.


  • #74
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    There's yer poll lads.


  • #75
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,725 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    No poll option for "neither" ?

    I heard this on the (hotel) TV, without knowing exactly what they were talking about, but wondering why they were playing a Stephen Hawking voice saying the word "ee-yairy" over and over again. Listening the to the clip posted above, it's still "ee-yairy" ...


  • #76
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Laurel
    Yanny, but I'm old. Does this mean I've exceptional hearing?


  • #77
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Laurel
    Yanny. I could only hear Laurel when the pitch was shifted up 40%.


  • #78
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,498 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    It's probably age-related. As you get older you lose the ability to hear certain pitch ranges.
    I'm an oldie, I hear Laurel.


  • #79
    LirW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    I heard a sped-up version earlier on the news and it was clearly Laurel.
    At home listening to the original clip it was Yanny.

    I won't even let myself into this mindfukcery, nope, not with me, go away.


  • #80
    heldel00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    When my husband played it the first time i heard Laurel but then when he played it later for our 2.5 yr old i could hear Yanny.

    Interestingly when we asked little fella "what's she saying?" he said Yanny. (Well actually Annie but he's not great at the talking!)


  • #81
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Laurel
    Anyone who hears Laurel has been mind chipped by the lizard overlords to prove they hear what the reptilians want them to hear.
    Us Yannis are the freedom fighters! We must resist th...HELP!!!








    Laurel.

    Definitely Laurel.


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  • #82
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,305 ✭✭✭kenmc


    Laurel for me, yanny for wife. Asked the kids 3 and 5 to say what they heard, (didn't say either of the 2 to them) both said words/sounds beginning "yan"


  • #83
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,986 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    ixoy wrote: »
    Yanny. I could only hear Laurel when the pitch was shifted up 40%.

    I'm the total opposite!

    To thine own self be true



  • #84
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Laurel
    Yanny but could hear laurel when the pitch went up.


  • #85
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Across a pub on the TV3 news earlier, just before six I heard Yanny. Listening to the link in the OP here just now I hear Laurel.


  • #86
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Brad Story from the University of Arizona's Speech Acoustics and Physiology Lab took a fine-toothed comb through the clip: “I'm pretty sure the original recording was 'laurel,'" he says. "The reason it can be confused is that there is a family of frequencies produced by the shape of our throat and mouth."

    Well done Laurel hearers and Blue dress people


  • #87
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Yeah i heard laurel when i tried it again. Couldnt make out yanny any more than i could make out laurel before. So weird.


  • #88
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    I'm yannylaurel fluid.


  • #89
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Laurel
    enfant terrible wrote: »
    Brad Story

    Cool Story bro...


  • #90
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,107 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Laurel
    50/50 the poll. Bizarre!


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  • #91
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,107 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Laurel
    Ok this is odd now.

    My missus just landed in, she hadnt heard about it, i sent her the link without saying what i heard and she goes "laurel, obviously!" and all i can hear is Yanny as shes playing the feckin thing!!


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