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So there is this thing going around where people apparently hear different words when listening to this audio file. It's pretty much like the Blue or Gold dress thing from a few years ago.
Here is the link, do you hear Laurel, or Yanny? ETA: When you click the link, it is automatically muted, so you'll have to unmute to hear.
https://twitter.com/CloeCouture/status/996218489831473152?s=19
buffalobo
05-15-2018, 23:36
Laurel
It is laurel.
Sammich maker says yanny.
I shall smack her later.
*disclosure: sammich maker says it's ok
There is a Reddit thread and on that the guy heard Laurel and the girl heard Yanny I think as well.
I'm interested in this because I've run into people that do not hear my name correctly throughout my life, and they always screw it up spectacularly, and in the same way. The first few times that I've said my name to someone and they repeated back, "George?" I just figured that they didn't hear me and were trying to cover up by being funny. It's happened enough times now that I think it is some hearing "thing," but I couldn't begin to explain why. I just assumed that it was people with a hearing issue that read lips to help them out, I really have no idea though.
I heard Laurel, my room mate heard Dairy...
Tell your roommate to respect your boundaries and quit spying on you!
Yanny (Yammy)
You're wrong. It's laurel.
I wonder if it could then also be related to the speakers a person is listening to it on? I live in an apartment so I have some (purposely) very light weight speakers that can't produce much bass/lower frequencies. So therefore I hear yanny, while if I had more full bodied speakers I might hear the other laurel?
-John
CoGirl303
05-16-2018, 07:15
Laurel.
not sure why this is a thing, but it goes to show the dumbing down of our society when everyone's at odds over what is being said.
it bears absolutely zero importance on anything at all.
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Laurel.
not sure why this is a thing, but it goes to show the dumbing down of our society when everyone's at odds over what is being said.
it bears absolutely zero importance on anything at all.
Are you drunk right now?
sandman76
05-16-2018, 08:04
I tried to hear it as Laurel. Could only hear Yanny.
From my phone speaker I hear only yanny. From my car speakers, only Laurel.
It's of course both. Laurel in a low frequency with Yanny overlaid in a high frequency with a bit more going on. Those that hear laurel (including myself) don't have as keen of upper frequency hearing. Which is why a lot of significant others here hear "Yanny".
It's neat, and leads me to wonder if a new hearing test couldn't be made with this technique spanning multiple frequencies and layered words - it would be much harder to fake hearing loss. (Hearing loss is an oft faked workers comp/disability injury) as instead of pretending not to hear a BEEE when they crank it up to ten and wince; you' have to know which freaking word is the correct one to say in advance...
That's a fascinating one. But how would one proof against a false positive of fakery w/ actual inability to hear either?
That's a fascinating one. But how would one proof against a false positive of fakery w/ actual inability to hear either?
What?
That's a fascinating one. But how would one proof against a false positive of fakery w/ actual inability to hear either?
What about multiple sets with different words but still at the same frequency, as redundancy so the odds of a false positive are reduced with each additional set?
Laurel.
not sure why this is a thing, but it goes to show the dumbing down of our society when everyone's at odds over what is being said.
it bears absolutely zero importance on anything at all.
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The fact that you responded to this says something very different than what you posted.
Grant H.
05-16-2018, 10:02
I hear Laurel from a host of different sources.
Home theater: Yamaha receiver with Polk Audio Monitor 40's and BIC F12 sub
Computer Speakers: Behringer MS40
Phone Speaker: LG G5
Headset: Bose QC35
TINFOIL ALERT!!! [tinhat][tinhat][tinhat]
Widespread test for further subliminal messaging to steer the masses.
IBBMB
ETA: Laurel in the car on my way to work, Yanny on the Jabra conferencing speaker on my computer
Zundfolge
05-16-2018, 10:26
On my desktop machine running through a set of powered speakers with a sub-woofer I hear Laurel, on my little laptop running through crappy little laptop speakers I hear Yammy (not even Yanny).
RblDiver
05-16-2018, 10:38
It's of course both. Laurel in a low frequency with Yanny overlaid in a high frequency with a bit more going on. Those that hear laurel (including myself) don't have as keen of upper frequency hearing. Which is why a lot of significant others here hear "Yanny".
It's neat, and leads me to wonder if a new hearing test couldn't be made with this technique spanning multiple frequencies and layered words - it would be much harder to fake hearing loss. (Hearing loss is an oft faked workers comp/disability injury) as instead of pretending not to hear a BEEE when they crank it up to ten and wince; you' have to know which freaking word is the correct one to say in advance...
Don't know how valid, but I remember years ago some kids saying they'd learned that there are certain audio ranges you just naturally start to lose as you get older. Thus, the kids started to use these "high" tones as their ringtones so teachers wouldn't hear their phones going off in class.
Oh, and Laurel. My hearing sucks :P
What?
Foxtrot stated this method could be used for hearing tests, since it uses words instead of tones. Recorded at different frequencies, it could act as an obstacle to faking hearing loss, since you'd have to say what words you hear instead of simply yes or no on a tone. Playing them in random sequence, someone wouldn't necessarily know whether or not to not push the button (if you are trying to fake hearing loss, you might push for only low tones).
So my question is how one would circumvent continued malingering since the higher frequencies would obviously still be higher.
Don't know how valid, but I remember years ago some kids saying they'd learned that there are certain audio ranges you just naturally start to lose as you get older. Thus, the kids started to use these "high" tones as their ringtones so teachers wouldn't hear their phones going off in class.
Oh, and Laurel. My hearing sucks :P
I have a dog whistle app on my phone. Wife and boys can hear things that I cannot hear at all. I'll play something and my wife is all, "Arggggghhhh stop that!" and I am just sitting there wondering deaf as a door post to the higher freqs.
Zundfolge
05-16-2018, 10:47
The higher frequencies are the first thing to go with hearing damage.
Considering this is a shooting forum, I'm going to bet most of us here have more damaged than average hearing.
Are you drunk right now?
Cracking up!
and laurel
Foxtrot stated this method could be used for hearing tests, since it uses words instead of tones. Recorded at different frequencies, it could act as an obstacle to faking hearing loss, since you'd have to say what words you hear instead of simply yes or no on a tone. Playing them in random sequence, someone wouldn't necessarily know whether or not to not push the button (if you are trying to fake hearing loss, you might push for only low tones).
So my question is how one would circumvent continued malingering since the higher frequencies would obviously still be higher.
Say again?
TINFOIL ALERT!!! [tinhat][tinhat][tinhat]
Widespread test for further subliminal messaging to steer the masses.
IBBMB
ETA: Laurel in the car on my way to work, Yanny on the Jabra conferencing speaker on my computer
This audio file is obviously going viral, so it's also obviously telling Alexas and Siris across the world to transfer $1 to a Mediterranean bank account.
Say again?
Dang it. I walked right into that one.
https://i.imgur.com/v3GWAOf.gif
It took a minute, but it was totally worth it.
BladesNBarrels
05-16-2018, 15:39
There is a Reddit thread and on that the guy heard Laurel and the girl heard Yanny I think as well.
I'm interested in this because I've run into people that do not hear my name correctly throughout my life, and they always screw it up spectacularly, and in the same way. The first few times that I've said my name to someone and they repeated back, "George?" I just figured that they didn't hear me and were trying to cover up by being funny. It's happened enough times now that I think it is some hearing "thing," but I couldn't begin to explain why. I just assumed that it was people with a hearing issue that read lips to help them out, I really have no idea though.
I repeated George and Irving to my wife.
She heard Garbo.
Hmmm?
Ha, well Irving isn't my meat space name.
BPTactical
05-16-2018, 16:52
All I hear is "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
.455_Hunter
05-16-2018, 17:25
Yanny
clodhopper
05-16-2018, 17:35
In the truck, all I heard was laurel and couldn't understand the debate, while my son hear Yanni and thought I was crazy. On my computer speakers, I can pick out both. Kind of like those texture pictures you can squint to see another hidden image. Laurel is a much lower register and Yanni is tinnier up high. Any system with heavy base or good sound will wash out the Yanni for most later age listeners. All you laurel hearers, try it on a crappy sound system and you might hear Yanni.
To be honest, as much as I have abused my hearing with loud music, construction equipment and drill rigs, I am surprised I am not in hearing aids already.
All I hear is "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"Tinnitus is a bitch.
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Fentonite
05-16-2018, 18:13
That was weird. I clearly heard Laurel on my phone. Later, it was Yanny on my tablet, so I listened on my phone again. It was laurel, and it stayed laurel when I immediately listened to it again on my tablet. Weird.
Bailey Guns
05-16-2018, 18:56
I hear Laurel plain as day on the computer. Wife hears Yanni and thinks I'm insane.
When I play it on my phone I hear a combo of both...like Yanel. I probably just need more bourbon.
hollohas
05-16-2018, 19:50
That was weird. I clearly heard Laurel on my phone. Later, it was Yanny on my tablet, so I listened on my phone again. It was laurel, and it stayed laurel when I immediately listened to it again on my tablet. Weird.Could it be playing something different each time you listen to it?
Someone should record the recording and play it back to see what it says then.
And then play it backwards at half speed to see if it's actually devil music.
It would have to be consistent hardware (brand/model of speakers) but most people don't comprehend both words simultaneously even if they are capable. So while "good" ears would hear both the low and the higher frequencies, their $#$#ing brain would filter out the lower word, and they wouldn't have anything to defer to. So while capable of hearing both, they only understand and can say the upper frequency "Yanni" or they have to pretend they can't hear anything, at which the audio tester can crank it up to 120 db and note their flinching. This is much the same reason why the wives think people are crazy for hearing "Laurel", when in fact they hear both.
But, based on the sheer randomness people are experiencing, it may not work. Still... an interesting one to test. Just not me!
But isn't volume going to affect ability to hear a frequency? It's been a while since I did a hearing test, but I seem to recall varying volume levels of the same tones.
Grant H.
05-16-2018, 20:15
But isn't volume going to affect ability to hear a frequency? It's been a while since I did a hearing test, but I seem to recall varying volume levels of the same tones.
With high end gear, it's less likely that high volume is going to favor one or the other.
My kid hears Larry. Think she's hearing both.
mahabali
05-16-2018, 22:41
yanny on both phone and computer. Trying to hear something else and cant. I remember on the white/blue dress I would see either from time to time.
I hear Laurel plain as day on the computer. Wife hears Yanni and thinks I'm insane.
When I play it on my phone I hear a combo of both...like Yanel. I probably just need more bourbon.
I would love to turn this into a drinking game. If someone says they heard "Yanny", take a drink. If someone says they heard "Laurel", take a drink. If someone says they hear "both", take 2 drinks.
It's got to be more productive than the discussion of the subject.
kidicarus13
05-16-2018, 22:57
I heard Yanny on my computer and made fun of co-workers who heard Laurel. Got home and listened on my phone and heard Laurel.
But the dress is still gold and white.
Have her put her fingers in her ears and listen bet she hears the other
It is laurel.
Sammich maker says yanny.
I shall smack her later.
*disclosure: sammich maker says it's ok
GilpinGuy
05-17-2018, 00:22
Could it be that you hear the first word that your read when you first look at it? But some hear it differently on different devices. I don't know, but I heard laurel clear as day on my phone. It'll be fun to try this with the kiddos and wife in the morning.
I heard Laurel and I had my 7yr old there with me. He heard Yanny. Did the test 3x and we both were consistent.
hurley842002
05-17-2018, 19:17
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mahabali
05-17-2018, 22:10
dress is blue and black.
I hear yanny clear as day , wife hears laurel.
Now I worked in body shops for 15 years. I been shooting guns / hunting my entire life , without hearing protection more than I’d like to admit.
What type of damage is typically done from that ? Low frequency ?
What type of damage is typically done from that ? Low frequency ?
I think someone mentioned it in the thread already. The high frequencies usually go first.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180518/596839bedbcf6ca7509ac9b5c3fdfd9e.jpg
I hear yanny clear as day , wife hears laurel.
Now I worked in body shops for 15 years. I been shooting guns / hunting my entire life , without hearing protection more than I’d like to admit.
What type of damage is typically done from that ? Low frequency ?
Odd, since I’m under the impression yanny is the higher freq.
OctopusHighball
05-18-2018, 08:45
My wife played this for me as were laying in bed one night and my eyes were closed (so I didn't see the suggestions). I said it sounded like "yammy" to me, but she swears she only hears "Laurel". We played it like 20 times from her cell phone speakers. I have a fairly significant case of tinnitus and these days often watch programs on TV with the closed captioning on because the dialog seems so muddled. So I thought my high range hearing was toast.
https://www.ar-15.co/attachment.php?attachmentid=74856&d=1526675941
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That was what I was thinking ? Not the first time I’ve been ass backwards lol.
Theres a page on NY times called “we made a tool so you can hear both yanny and laurel “
I slide it to the low side and I hear laurel , slide it to the high side and the wife can finally hear yanny.
ymmv. Lol
Odd, since I’m under the impression yanny is the higher freq.
My wife brought this to my ear without showing me the words. I hear Yarey. A combination of the two.
I think if you didn’t know what the words you are trying to hear are, you will hear a combination of the two.
electronman1729
05-19-2018, 09:24
My did this the other day and wears hearing aids. With the hearing aid on he heard Laurel, and with them off Yanni
OctopusHighball
05-19-2018, 09:34
That was what I was thinking ? Not the first time I’ve been ass backwards lol.
Theres a page on NY times called “we made a tool so you can hear both yanny and laurel “
I slide it to the low side and I hear laurel , slide it to the high side and the wife can finally hear yanny.
ymmv. Lol
I found this tool also. What I found weird is that once I slide it a certain way and hear the other word, as I slide it the opposite way it takes a long time before I start hearing the other word. For example, with that tool for the first time ever I heard Laurel at the center mark. Then as I slide to the far right I get yammy. Then I have to go almost all the way over to the left again to get back to Laurel, and once I get Laurel I need to go almost all the way to the right again to pick up yammy. I don't know how much is power of suggestion and how much is attributed to what I am actually hearing.
OtterbatHellcat
05-20-2018, 08:26
This is damn weird for sure..... I heard Laurel on 9 news this morning, yet a version of Yammi on the laptop in front of me now off Irvings link.
eta: Yanni on the S III.
Honey Badger282.8
05-20-2018, 09:07
It’s a distorted “Laurel,” but if an individual has younger ears or better hearing they are more likely to hear “Yanny.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDiXQl7grPQ
Rooskibar03
05-20-2018, 22:08
74888
OtterbatHellcat
05-20-2018, 22:31
Are you the gate keeper?
lol.
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