Beyond Laurel/Yanny: The Laurel/Yanny
illusion famous
audio clip that some people hear as the word "laurel" and others hear as
the (dramatically different!) word "yanny." Our recent paper Beyond Laurel/Yanny: An Autoencoder-Enabled Search for Polyperceivable Audio asks whether other such "polyperceivable" audio clips
exist. Surprisingly, we found several new examples of this phenomenon, and
concluded that >2% of English words may be polyperceivable.
This page is a gallery of compelling examples we found while conducting
our research. Each clip is provided at multiple playback rates, because
slowing down the clip can sometimes cause a listener to suddenly switch
perceptions! Of course, not all examples will work for all listeners
— if you can't hear both perceptual modes, see if your friends
agree…
For information on how these examples were found, please consult our
paper. To submit an example of your own, please contact the authors.
laurel ~ yanny
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round ~ world
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pearl ~ kai
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frank ~ strength
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third ~ foot
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claimed ~ framed
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thrilling ~ flowing
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settle ~ civil
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leg ~ lake
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growing ~ brewing
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idly ~ Natalie
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fiend ~ themed
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thumb ~ film
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lady ~ maybe
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floral ~ family
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worlds ~ yikes [Guan and Valiant 2019]
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bologna ~ good morning [Guan and Valiant 2019]
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