Yanny or Laurel?

The next person to say "It just depends on the speakers" needs to get out of their seat, have a shower, change their y-fronts and then go out and do a simultaneous test with other real life human beings as scary as that may sound.
 
Got absolutely nothing to do with the speakers or device. Several people listening to the same clip from the same source hear different things. As for me, I can only hear Yanny but it sounds more like 'Yamee'. Its split about 50-50 in my house. Some people hear both!?!
 
Laurel, when I heard it on telly earlier, not knowing anything about it or what it was supposed to be.
Yanny when I heard it at the start of the video in this thread that explains it. Weird.
 
I heard 'laurel' when i watched the BBC vid. Couldn't hear yanny on any phone or speaker.
Then watched the vid in post #3 and since Yanny was shown written before it plays I heard Yanny...now can't hear Laurel on any device/speaker settings! even on the bbc video!

this vid is good! exactly how I first heard it when they eq it to let you hear both.... and now the bbc vid is back to sounding like laurel again :o

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...hear-both-why-sound-pitch-voice-a8353706.html
 
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Laurel on every device I tried, even the YouTube video where the guy changes the pitch to try and make Yanny much clearer .But then my hearing is rubbish and I can't hear the high end in most things so maybe I shouldnt be surprised.

On the plus side, it saves me a fortune in slashers and headphones as I can't tell the difference between good and bad ones .
 
A couple of days ago I was hearing Laurel. But so listened again last night and I could only hear Yanni. My daughter was listening at the same time and could only hear Laurel. It's really weird when the person standing next to you heard something completely different.
 
That to me is just LAUREL, absolutely no doubt whatsoever that is LAUREL, it is not even close to Yanny and they are not even phonetically similar so I don't see how it can be Yanny, you must all be trolling me :mad:
 
div0 said:
Of course it does.

But that's not to say that it's only down to the device/speakers.
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It can't have anything to do with the device though surely if some people are hearing both words coming from the same device. Im hearing 'yanny' on all devices.

Not read through the entire thread but unless someone is only ever hearing one word from one device and the other word from a different device, I'd argue it's nothing to do with the device at all. Those I know who hear both, it just randomly changes from one to the other for them. Few can hear both at the same time.
 
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