Yanny or Laurel?

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So the latest viral "Is this Blue or Gold" illusion that shows we cant actually trust our senses is dividing the internet, but this time it's sound

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-44151302/yanny-or-laurel-the-sound-dividing-the-internet

That to me is just Yanny, absolutely no doubt whatsoever that is Yanny, it is not even close to Laurel and they are not even phonetically similar so I don't see how it can be Laurel, you must all be trolling me :mad:

An interesting thing said on the news last night was with this one, most people can only hear one or the other and not change to hear the different sound, unlike the colour, or visual illusions where you can usually 'force' yourself to see the other option.
 
It can change depending on device... So there isn't really a correct answer.

Playing on my iPhone, I hear Yanny no question about it. Listening via PC speakers and on the radio this morning, I hear Laurel.
 
I generally hear laurel, however if I play the video with a radio station playing over the top, I can hear it as yanny! The missus always hears it as yanny and can't hear laurel at all.
 
I hear both.

I listen to it on my phone and I hear Yanny but on my PC through headphones I hear Laurel. I think I am broken.

Either that or it's an elaborate troll that changes it randomly.
 
samurl said:
It can change depending on device... So there isn't really a correct answer.

Playing on my iPhone, I hear Yanny no question about it. Listening via PC speakers and on the radio this morning, I hear Laurel.
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Ah that's interesting, play on my phone this morning when i saw it doing the rounds on FB it sounded obviously like yanny. And those who were saying otherwise did make you wonder what their hearing was like.

Will try it on a few other devices later.
 
Laurel. Which is what it is actually saying. Apparently the people who hear Yanny are basically listening through crap speakers/headphones that lose the low end. With more high end it begins to sound like Yanny.
 
I can hear both, depending on what i play it on.

This does not surprise to me in the slightest. I have a big history of hearing issues and changes since I was a wee lad, i'm used to hearing things differently, very frequently and have first hand experience of how many factors come into hearing and sound in general.
 
Yanny for me, but the audiologist ? made a lot of sense in describing how some people will hear the same words differently.
For instance, in common I’d guess with most people raised in the U.K., I say Las Vegas as Lass Vaygas, but I hear Americans say, Loss Vaygas.
I queried this with an American friend, and he said, “It’s a mixture of how WE say it, and how YOU hear it.”
He said, “I’d describe the way that we Americans say it, as Lahs Vegas, but your dumbass Limey ears hear Loss.
The more I tried to say it his way, the more I felt he was right.
 
I hear Laurel in every variation of trying it I've tried so far. First I heard about it my parents were debating/arguing over it (my mum hears Yanny my dad Laurel) so I didn't know what the word was supposed to be first time I heard it when my dad was playing it.

It seems to be a complex relationship between how good your hearing actually is with lower frequencies, how your brain processes lower frequencies and/or how your brain fills in the blanks if some of the information is missing.
 
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