Yanny or Laurel

"Yanny or Laurel" is an auditory illusion which became popular in May 2018. It is a short audio recording of speech can be heard as one of two words.^[1] 53 percent of over 500,000 respondents to a Twitter poll reported hearing a man saying the word "Laurel", while 47 percent reported hearing a voice saying the name "Yanny".

It was confirmed that the audio says both Yanny and Laurel,^[2] but some users focus on the higher frequency sounds in "Yanny" and cannot hear the lower sounds of the word "Laurel".

References

↑ Kirby, Jen (May 16, 2018). "Why you hear "Laurel" or "Yanny" in that viral audio clip, explained". Vox. Archived from the original on May 16, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
↑ Josh Katz; Jonathan Corum and Jon Huang (May 16, 2018). "We Made a Tool So You Can Hear Both Yanny and Laurel". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-06-01. playing the "laurel" clip over speakers and re-recording it introduced noise and exaggerated the higher frequencies.

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[Vox-1] Kirby, Jen (May 16, 2018). "Why you hear "Laurel" or "Yanny" in that viral audio clip, explained". Vox. Archived from the original on May 16, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2018.

[Katz-2] Josh Katz; Jonathan Corum and Jon Huang (May 16, 2018). "We Made a Tool So You Can Hear Both Yanny and Laurel". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-06-01. playing the "laurel" clip over speakers and re-recording it introduced noise and exaggerated the higher frequencies.

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