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Re:A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny' by Grue3 on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:25AM (#17089220)
The audio was derived entirely from a recording of a man saying "laurel" (can be heard here: [1]). There's no recording of him saying "yanny" because it isn't a word. The high frequencies of "laurel" do in fact sound like "yanny".

[1] https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel

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Re:A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny' by rcthompson on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:28AM (#17089242)
Well, if someone doctored a recording of "laurel" to make it sound like "yanny" and then mixed it back into the original recording of laurel (or did something mathematically equivalent), then maybe both the article and my comment are correct.
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Re:A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny' by tristanj on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:29AM (#17089709)
Mixing two audio files is contrary to what the people who posted this to instagram & twitter stated they did.
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