Yanny or Laurel?

[notbatman]

Watch the following video then cast your vote on what name you hear.

Do you hear "Yanny" or "Laurel"? -- https://youtu.be/KM38OFDKU20 (0:41)



Personally I hear the name "Laurel" but there seems to be some sort of controversy (started on Twitter) where some people seem to hear the name "Yanny". Last year there was a very similar controversy some of you may may remember "what colour is this dress?"; I saw a black & blue dress while some folks saw a white & gold dress.




"The Dress"

It still looks blue & gold, oh what!!! wait a minute...

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[b_oo]

I hear Laurel, and the dress looks gold and white.

[Foxpup]

It's Yanny in a high-pitched voice and Laurel in a low-pitched voice played simultaneously. Which voice you hear depends on whether you are better at hearing high frequencies or low frequencies.

It's not like the dress at all, which is in fact a black and blue dress that was photographed incompetently. Nobody who has ever seen an overexposed photograph should be confused about it.

[KrakenZ]

The audio experts explain why people can hear different sounds.

The secret is from frequency. Part of the sound that causes people to hear Yanny is the high frequency while those who hear Laurel is low frequency.

[grockroc]

I hear yanny because my ears are good at hearing high frequencies.

[D.Lorenz]

I hear black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow...

[notbatman]

It's Yanny in a high-pitched voice and Laurel in a low-pitched voice played simultaneously. Which voice you hear depends on whether you are better at hearing high frequencies or low frequencies.

It's not like the dress at all, which is in fact a black and blue dress that was photographed incompetently. Nobody who has ever seen an overexposed photograph should be confused about it.

So they're both playing but we can only perceive one at a time, correct?

Are you aware of the double slit experiment (rhetorical question)? I seem to be able to draw a parallel between the theoretical particle and conscious observation here; the names are in a state of superposition (or a Gaussian wave in more conventional terms) and your conscious observation then becomes entangled with only one of two possibilities causing only one name to materialize.

You may wish to re-think your conclusions on the dress, I suspect a similar situation is occurring with the colours; the implications being as profound as they may be.

[TheWhiteCompany]

why not both?

[notbatman]

why not both?

I think that's the issue here, both Yanny and Laurel are potentially encoded in a wave file but the listener can only perceive one at a time when observation and decoherence occurs. Depending on the listeners ability to perceive certain frequencies the recording will default to and become entangled with only one of the names.

The controversy here is that two people in the same room listening to the same recording can potentially be listening to different tracks, hearing different names and even viewing different waveforms when the wave file is graphed. Do you see the issue here, two people side by side each experiencing a different physical reality?

Now I suppose I may have taken theorycraft too far here and the recordings of two names were mixed together in a single wave file and both are present when the waveform is graphed. The issue is that when two recordings are mixed they sound mixed and you can hear both names not just one or the other.

[Talkingbest]

Yanny

[Grundigshare]

Yanny but once I heard Laurel

[Pythontown]

I heard both

[Paycomesell]

I heard Laurel but my friends say opposite lol

[Fruitsot]

Yanny

[Faturanews]

Yanny couple times I try always was Yanny

[Doubleabc]

Laurel

[Aselgeko]

Yanny

[tabachnyidym]

Yanny

[Impulseboy]

It depends on what you're listening it with. I tried listening it from my phone and I hear Yanny. When I switched on my desktop I hear Laurel.

[raatnak]

Laurel