Strange Recording Some hear Yanni the other Laurel

 Congratulations to those hearing “yanny.”

Are you sure?   I heard 'laurel'.
According to the article, an acoustic expert thinks it was originally recorded as 'laurel'.
  Copied and pasted from the article:
 

"Brad Story from the University of Arizona's Speech Acoustics and Physiology Lab took a fine-toothed comb through the clip: “I'm pretty sure the original recording was 'laurel,'" he says. "The reason it can be confused is that there is a family of frequencies produced by the shape of our throat and mouth."   

Tim

The very first word I hear seems to be a mix of Yanni & Laurel. after the first word, it's all Laurel

47 % - Yanny

52 % - Laurel

1 % - Hardy..."Another fine mess"

@elrod i heard yalaurel once too split second

It makes no difference what word was originally recorded, yanny or laurel. What matter is what you hear. My understanding is that the original recording was masked by some random frequencies to fool human hearing. When we heard the sound on TV, we looked at each other and my wife (who is practically deaf) said all she could hear was laurel, while all I heard was yanny. I’ll accept that it may have to do with the shape of your inner ear. FWIW, congratulations to those who heard yanny (lol).