Laurel … because I have decent computer speakers on this desktop. I think the third video is the best. The low-pass filter produces “Laurel”. The high-pass filter results a highly distorted “yammy” … but the quality is so bad you simply choose that because of the suggestion (basically, you’d probably not say “yammy” if you hadn’t been given the word choice beforehand). Why does the high-pass filter sound so bad? Because the original recording was sampled at too low of a rate, resulting in significant folding of the higher frequencies. It’s basically junk audio and can be interpreted in many ways.
The obnoxious “Nerd It Up” video is interesting. When slowed down I hear something like “Yale-E” or “yea-we”.
One of the audio scientists could clear this up fairly easily if they would make a high quality recording of someone saying “lore” and then simulate foldover. My guess is that it would increasingly sound like “yea” as the sample rate drops.
Yanni for me but haven’t played around with the different pitches. I think I saw that those who hear in high pitch hear yanni and those who hear in low pitch hear Laurel.
@droppedit If the cause is insufficient digital sampling of the higher frequencies, wouldn’t this aliasing generate the lower frequency sounds? That is, folding of the real “yanny” frequency band, would create a fictitious “laurel” frequency band. I may be mistaken, but I think that you are saying that it’s the other way around.
Heard Yanni at normal pitch. Then pushed the level to the right and heard Laurel. What was interesting is if I started from the center and moved toward Laurel I heard Yanni until I was quite far to the right. But if I started at Laurel and moved it to Yanni, kept hearing Laurel until the middle. Not sure what that means, but interesting. And I can sing reasonably well.
I wonder… my mom and roommate who hear Yanny/yammy instead of laurel are very good at understanding people with heavy accents. My other roommate and I hear laurel are terrible at understanding accents. Both yanny people have also lived all over the world, us laurel people have basically always lived in the US.
