'Laurel' or 'Yanny'?

[Ian]

Have any of you listened to the audio clip that has been posted all over the place this past couple of days?:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-44136799

Becky played it to me yesterday and asked what I could hear - I can only hear "Yanny"... while she hears "Laurel". I must have listened to it 20 times to try and see how on earth that was the case, until reading the more detailed explanation on freq.

Give it a listen and vote on what you can hear! Try it on someone else if you can, and hopefully it'll be a different result!

 

[muckshifter]

I don't hear anything, than I found the audio clip.

 

[V_R]

This was all over Reddit a few days ago, its Laurel!

Edit: Science.

 

[muckshifter]

Science.

now ask a BT India helpdesk person to pronounce each word ... I won't stop there, any one for a Russian interpretation.

 

[Becky]

The funny thing is, Ian's hearing is terrible! He has his phone volume so loud that I can always hear both sides of the conversation. So it's slightly galling that he can hear Yanny and I can't!

 

[nivrip]

I hear "Yanny" so I must have young ears. But I know, from my age, that I have old ears.

Is science always correct? I was always taught to query EVERYTHING.

 

[TriplexDread]

And the world comes to an end because we have nothing else to be concerned about

 

[Becky]

And the world comes to an end because we have nothing else to be concerned about

Good point, I better get back to solving world peace

 

[Taffycat]

Well this is interesting. I heard a very definite laurel, in every clip that I listened to. But then I asked my OH to listen - without giving him any clues at all. He heard Yanni, very clearly.

Edit: I forgot to mention that my OH has some hearing loss, so must be some significance in that.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Laurel for me