Re:A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny'
by tristanj on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:19AM
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> The reason you can hear both is because someone took the high frequencies of "yanny" and combined them with the low frequencies of "laurel".
No, I very much doubt this is a doctored recording. Wired did an interview with the person(s) who first discovered it [0]. They played the pronunciation of "laurel" from vocabulary.com [1] on their computer and re-recorded the audio to their phone, then posted it to instagram. The audio sounds distorted because it was played through laptop speakers and recorded again with a microphone.
The "laurel/yanny" effect is also reproducible with the audio from the original source at [1]. You don't need to doctor the audio to hear it.
No, I very much doubt this is a doctored recording. Wired did an interview with the person(s) who first discovered it [0]. They played the pronunciation of "laurel" from vocabulary.com [1] on their computer and re-recorded the audio to their phone, then posted it to instagram. The audio sounds distorted because it was played through laptop speakers and recorded again with a microphone.
The "laurel/yanny" effect is also reproducible with the audio from the original source at [1]. You don't need to doctor the audio to hear it.
[0] https://www.wired.com/story/yanny-and-laurel-true-history/
[1] https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel