Which Word Do You Hear?

[maxxevv]

Its strange, I hear Laurel with a whisper of Yanny in the background at the same time.

 

[nuko]

I hear both, two different voices overlapping each other and saying their respective words at relatively the same time.

 

[Soniclife]

But I've discovered that If I listen to the original Laurel (in the dictionary link) over headphones lying on the desk it sounds like Yanny...

I just tried that, I only hear Laurel until I turn the vol up so high it distorts, then I start hearing Yanny quietly at the same time. Feels to me like it's to do with what your brain does with the distortion, lock onto it, or reject or hear through it.

 

[Krunok]

I just tried that, I only hear Laurel until I turn the vol up so high it distorts, then I start hearing Yanny quietly at the same time. Feels to me like it's to do with what your brain does with the distortion, lock onto it, or reject or hear through it.

Exactly. It's got nothing to do with your hearing but with the way your brain fights to recognize the word out of this bad recording.

 

[DonH56]

I hear both, two different voices overlapping each other and saying their respective words at relatively the same time.

Let me guess: one from the speakers, the other inside your head?

Listening at very low volume on my work notebook it is clearly Yanni. Connecting headphones and listening softly, I hear Yanni, but it changes to Laurel as I increase the volume at which point I noticed "Laurel" is much deeper and masculine. Reducing the volume but boosting the bass changes the previous Yanni into Laurel.

Conclusion: By adjusting the bass and volume on my notebook, it can perform sex change operations.

 

[Krunok]

Let me guess: one from the speakers, the other inside your head?

Listening at very low volume on my work notebook it is clearly Yanni. Connecting headphones and listening softly, I hear Yanni, but it changes to Laurel as I increase the volume at which point I noticed "Laurel" is much deeper and masculine. Reducing the volume but boosting the bass changes the previous Yanni into Laurel.

Conclusion: By adjusting the bass and volume on my notebook, it can perform sex change operations.

Hahaha - but you also said Laurel is "masculine".

 

[blackmetalboon]

Saw this on another forum yesterday and I clearly heard “Yanny” from the supplied link. Tried the link in the OP and heard “Laurel”. Went back to the link I used yesterday and I now hear “Laurel”?

 

[danadam]

Using this nytimes app, let's say that neutral (in the middle) is 0. I hear Laurel there. I have to move it to +4 to start hearing Yanny (though it sound more like Yally to me). Then moving slowly back I keep hearing Yanny down to around +0.5. There it collapses and I hear Laurel again. And again I have to move it to +4 to start hearing Yanny.

 

[rebbiputzmaker]

Well, until we establish the truth I still think all of you hearing Yanny should refrain yourself from discussions if DACs, OPamps and other stuff sound different. Once you hear Laurel you're good to go again.

Yes everything sounds the same. yanny. laurel, even moe, larry, and curly.

 

[Ronm1]

It's pretty simple to me if one hears anything but laurel save your money and buy a cheap boom box or find another hobby. OTOH I have old h/w I can sell you for a few K that will make that word/phrase sound really good.

 

[Krunok]

It's pretty simple to me if one hears anything but laurel save your money and buy a cheap boom box or find another hobby. OTOH I have old h/w I can sell you for a few K that will make that word/phrase sound really good.

Oh, but it's not that simple. Try this:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996962183257968641

 

[RayDunzl]

Yanni says it's Yanni.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996876879922679813

 

[Wombat]

I wonder, given that this simple example in OP can cause confusion, how reliable are perceptions of minor detail nuances in listening that are being masked by all of the total reproduced sound content?

 

[Cosmik]

Oh, but it's not that simple....

That is absolutely brilliant. At first glance "brainstorm" and "green needle" don't even seem to have many 'sounds' in common, so I would never have thought they could be confused.

 

[Wombat]

Oh, but it's not that simple. Try this:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996962183257968641

The Green Needle response was absent here no matter how hard I thought of it.

 

[Cosmik]

The Green Needle response was absent here no matter how hard I thought of it.

Again, I find that the device it is reproduced on makes a difference. On my laptop, it works perfectly but on my phone it doesn't. Also, various versions of it on the web that have clearly been compressed several times in a row don't seem to work as well as the link above.

 

[Theo]

I hear "brain needle", but can't reach the "brainstorm" stage. I think I'll change my cables to overcome that...

 

[amirm]

Oh, but it's not that simple. Try this:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996962183257968641

I keep hearing brain needle!

 

[stunta]

I wonder how this would have turned out if the audio clip did not have a note before it suggesting you will hear either laurel or yanny. What if they just asked "what do you hear?" and then take a poll. By suggesting you will hear one or the other, they've already potentially biased the listener from hearing anything else.

 

[Sal1950]

Oh, but it's not that simple. Try this:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996962183257968641

On the first one I don't get a distinct version of either, no the second one I hear green needle clearly each time?