Laurel or Yanny? Which do you hear?

[unsinkable]

A recording is making the internet rounds, of a voice saying a word.

If you've heard it, did you hear Laurel or Yanny?

[Seeking Squirrels]

Laurel. Very clearly. I cannot fathom how anyone can hear Yanny! I know those that hear Yanny feel the same about Laurel. It's like the dress all over again!

[alisoncooks]

So the first time heard something like "nya-nya" but every time after that I heard "Laurel."  I can't hear anything BUT Laurel now. 

My oldest hears nothing but Laurel. Youngest said she hears "yee-yee."

[scholastica]

Half of us heard each when we did this this morning. It was so weird

[unsinkable]

8 minutes ago, alisoncooks said:

So the first time heard something like "nya-nya" but every time after that I heard "Laurel."  I can't hear anything BUT Laurel now. 

You must be my one son's ear mate (like a soul mate) bc he hears, (this is a quote):

"Yamulenah."

[Calm37]

Yair-wee. Every time. 

[Pawz4me]

I've listened to it on various devices and heard different things.

[TravelingChris]

With the sound settings I have on my computer, I heard Yanny.  But I read further along in the article and tried the other sound settings and some were most definitely Laurel.  

[KrissiK]

Very clearly “Laurel” every time I hear it.

[Joker]

I hear Laurel but dh and both dc hear Jerry. ?

When I listen to the one where they supposedly remove some frequency, I don't hear Laurel but what I do hear isn't really any word.

[catz]

I heard Laurel on my laptop and Yanny on my iPad.  Very clearly in both cases.  So I can totally see how it has something to do with settings/sound systems/head phones, etc.

[Lady Florida.]

I've listened on my phone with the phone speakers, laptop with and without headphones. Laurel every time. I haven't told dh about it. I'm sure ds has heard but he's been working and I haven't seen much of him lately. I really want to find out what they hear.

It's actually Laurel.

Here's a story about its origin,

And here's the original recording for a dictionary website. 

 

[Matryoshka]

I have heard both, though only one at a time.  Last night when they were playing it on the news, one of the anchors said he heard Yanny when the sound on his laptop was quiet and Laurel when it was louder.  At first I heard Laurel, but they played it a bunch of times, and then I heard Yanny too, and when the anchor said that I realized that it was while it was more playing in the background, so I think I also give some credence to volume or other sound settings.  On my home laptop, at least with the version that got linked on my FB, I can only hear Laurel, no matter what the volume.

[GailV]

At first I heard Yanny, but then I listened to it with the bass modulated differently and heard both at the same time. (Someone had done a post on twitter with various settings for the bass.)  The Laurel is a lower pitch than the Yanny, btw.  

This would be GREAT for upper elementary/middle school science on sound and hearing.

[Junie]

I heard Yanny on my computer (with the speaker and with headphones).

I heard Laurel on the radio in the car.

Weird.

[Seeking Squirrels]

So I clearly heard Laurel on the recording I listened to this morning. I just pulled up the same recording to show the kids and now I hear "yammy". 5yo hears "yelly", 9yo also hears "yammy". WTH? Same recording and I hear something different than I did this morning?? I TRIED to hear Yanny this morning and could not get anything but Laurel.

[Mbelle]

I heard Laurel, but everyone else in my family hears Yanny.  

[Mbelle]

1 minute ago, Seeking Squirrels said:

So I clearly heard Laurel on the recording I listened to this morning. I just pulled up the same recording to show the kids and now I hear "yammy". 5yo hears "yelly", 9yo also hears "yammy". WTH? Same recording and I hear something different than I did this morning?? I TRIED to hear Yanny this morning and could not get anything but Laurel.

My 5 year old actually says yammy too!

[SKL]

If I'm hearing the right one, it is clearly "yanny" in my ears.  So clear that I wonder if I have the real clip.

[Vintage81]

I've listened to it on my iPad and on my phone. It's Laurel very clearly every time. 

I had my DDs listen and both of them heard Yanny (or yammy). They couldn't understand how I could hear Laurel. So weird.

[Seeking Squirrels]

I am so confused now haha. NYT has a clip to help you hear both. You slide the bar one way or the other until you can hear the other one. I didn't have to slide it far to get it to Laurel from Yammy, but DD9 had to have it almost all the way. Then when we took it back to the Yanny side, I had to get it almost all the way, well past the middle, before it went away from Laurel. At the far Yanny end, I could finally hear what DD5 hears "Yellly". Now I just hear Laurel. ?

[VaKim]

I have heard both, back and forth all day. Laurel is very clear when I hear it. Yanny sounds really garbled. Not sure this link has been posted. 

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/15/17358136/yanny-laurel-the-dress-audio-illusion-frequency-sound-perception

 

[sassenach]

I can’t begin to figure out how one would hear yanny. I tried, but all I hear is laurel. 

[GinaPagnato]

How can it be anything other than yanni??

[Meriwether]

Laurel - very clearly. On the NYT site, I never heard Yanny. On the left side, the closest I got was Yelli. 

[Cinder]

I voted that I couldn't answer because I had no idea what this poll was about. Now that I've read through and listened to a couple of these clips... If I'd known what they poll was about earlier I'd have voted Laurel because that's all I heard. I heard nothing that sounded like Yanny. But I'll leave my original vote. For science. ?

[happi duck]

Before I knew what is was I heard Yanny.  Now that I know it is Laurel I can't hear Yanny.  Weird!

[SeaConquest]

I am firmly team Laurel, as was my almost 5 year old. DH heard yummy and my nine year old heard yerry.

[Catwoman]

I cast my vote in the poll for the baby born with lunch.

Somebody had to do it, so it might as well be me.

[Lady Florida.]

2 hours ago, sassenach said:

I can’t begin to figure out how one would hear yanny. I tried, but all I hear is laurel. 

I tried too, several times. With those pictures where you see one thing or another, when I concentrate hard enough I can always eventually see the other one. But I just can't hear yanny try as I might.

[Mimm]

Yanny. I keep trying to hear Laurel. The Yanny voice apparently sounds higher and more robotic than the Laurel voice. I said something about "that robot" and the Laurel hearers in my house said, "Huh? What robot? You mean that dude saying Laurel?"

[Elfknitter.#]

Yaurel. ?  LOL

[Angie in VA]

4 hours ago, Joker said:

I hear Laurel but dh and both dc hear Jerry. ?

When I listen to the one where they supposedly remove some frequency, I don't hear Laurel but what I do hear isn't really any word.

 

I wondered about frequency issues. I have a little hearing loss, and wondered if that affects what I hear. I voted Yanny. And it's annoying!

[alisoncooks]

DH and I just watched this and it cracked us up:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ftw.usatoday.com/2018/05/charles-barkley-tnt-prank-laurel-yanny-doughnut-donut-video-funny-ernie-shaq-kenny-nba-playoffs/amp

[Liz CA]

They just played it on the way home on the radio and I heard "Laurel." The host explained that it is a frequency issue.

[PrincessMommy]

3 hours ago, sassenach said:

I can’t begin to figure out how one would hear yanny. I tried, but all I hear is laurel. 

And I can't fathom how you hear Laurel it's so clearly Yanny to me.  Actually  it's yeeanny in my ear.

 

[PrincessMommy]

50 minutes ago, Angie in VA said:

 

I wondered about frequency issues. I have a little hearing loss, and wondered if that affects what I hear. I voted Yanny. And it's annoying!

It is terribly annoying.   I would never have thought I had hearing loss... but maybe I should have it checked out. 

[LucyStoner]

Listening at the same time on the same device and with him not even knowing the two things he might hear, my husband heard Yanny and I heard Laurel.  

Go figure.  

[sassenach]

37 minutes ago, PrincessMommy said:

And I can't fathom how you hear Laurel it's so clearly Yanny to me.  Actually  it's yeeanny in my ear.

 

That’s honestly hysterical to me. Life is weird. 

[Katy]

Laptop Laurel.  News varied depending on which show played it.

[ikslo]

Laurel.  DS hears Laurie.  

[hjffkj]

It isn't just the frequency that affects what you hear. The noises around you can change it. The first few times when I listened to it all I heard was Yanny, at the time all 5 of my kids and my 2 parents were in the room. The kids were loud, my dad was watching a movie behind me. When I listened to it a bit later on the same computer at the same settings with the same clip source I heard Laurel.

 

Then I had the kids make noise all around me and it went back to Yanny. 

 

[barnwife]

Well, every source I've it heard from it was clearly Yanny...until I listened to the original. Now it's clearly Laurel no matter which source I listen too. Maybe my ears are broken.

[Paige]

I could hear yanny on the NYT site and once for about 1 second on the regular recording when I was listening for it, but other than that it's laurel. I had my DD and Dh listen to it without sensitizing them to what they were listening to and they both heard laurel.

I think my brain would always prefer laurel because what is yanny? It's a non-word. My brain likes to make sense and will decide that sounds should be words if it has a choice. 

[Tap]

Can't answer. I heard only Laurel on one recording and only Yanny on another. LOL  I could say both, but I don't hear both on the same recording and I suspect that is what you mean. 

[MistyMountain]

I heard Laurel but all my kids listening at the same time heard Yanny. One child can hear Laurel if they listen for the lower sound.

[kitten18]

7 hours ago, Lady Florida. said:

I've listened on my phone with the phone speakers, laptop with and without headphones. Laurel every time. I haven't told dh about it. I'm sure ds has heard but he's been working and I haven't seen much of him lately. I really want to find out what they hear.

It's actually Laurel.

Here's a story about its origin,

And here's the original recording for a dictionary website. 

 

On the recording I listened to I could only hear Yanny (my 14 year old heard Laurel when we were listening at the same time)  

When I listened to that dictionary recording it was very clearly Laurel. 

[Pippen]

9 hours ago, alisoncooks said:

So the first time heard something like "nya-nya" but every time after that I heard "Laurel."  I can't hear anything BUT Laurel now. 

My oldest hears nothing but Laurel. Youngest said she hears "yee-yee."

My daughter played it for me last night. I very clearly hear "yelly" as in rhymes with jelly.

[gaillardia]

I listened on my lap top and my phone. I hear yammy. I have tinnitus. Does that matter? I've listened to three different versions (websites) of it too. Let me check with the fam. Oh, wait they're supposed to be asleep. lol

but they weren't asleep. 3 heard laurel, 1 heard yanny, I still hear yammy.

 

[Mabelen]

My 14 year old and I both heard yanni on the first site, and both heard laurel on the vocabulary.com site.