A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny'

Re:A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny' by glandium on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:47AM (#17088795)

Something is weird with this demo. I was hearing yanny the first time, slided towards laurel, which I heard, and sliding back in the yanny direction, I can't hear anything else than laurel anymore, even at the rightmost yanny position.

However, if I listen to the samples at https://twitter.com/xxv/status/996462632998711297 I can hear yanny.

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Re:A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny' by urmish on Thursday May 17, 2018 @11:15AM (#17092006)

Its hysteresis. Also there are 2 different frequencies. Our ears tune for particular ones depending on the history.

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Re:A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny' by Kiro on Thursday May 17, 2018 @07:32AM (#17090408)

It's nothing weird with the demo, it's humans that are weird.

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