May 192018
Oh, what the hell. The last few days lots of people online have been yapping about whether they hear “yanny” or “laurel” in a particular audio clip. It’s another one of those useless yet unavoidable little corners of the internet.
Here’s a link to a repeating audio clip that lets you slide frequencies back and forth. For me, starting it in the central position and letting it play, it started off very clearly as “yanny” but quickly turned very clearly into “laurel,” and I have to move the slider waaaay over into yanny-territory before I hear “yanny” again. In fact, the original audio file comes from the vocabulary.com page for “laurel.”