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White House Response to #Yanny/#Laurel
Okay…. President Trump cracked Me up. That was totally unexpected.
That was a literal LOL. Thanks for sharing.
Edited to add: and of course I hear Yanny. And I’m getting a kick out of millions of people saying (almost) my last name. It gets mis-pronounced so often …
Yanny and Laurel should have a cup of covfefe.
Yep. That was great!
Just played the video for my husband (the original Yenny) and he laughed til he cried.
Hysterical! I loved it! Trump especially. And it’s #Laurel!
It’s weird. Watching the original video on my desktop speakers, I hear, “Laurel,” but through headphones on my phone, and in this video, I hear, “Yanny.”
And, yes, Trump made me laugh. Well done, Mr. President.
hahaha! This is weird: Like @umbrafractus I heard only “Laurel” when I saw this on the news. But in this video, I heard only “Yanny.” What does it all mean!
President Trump seems like he’s starting to have fun. Hitting a stride. Things ‘feel’ different, like things are really starting to click.
Mama Toad,
You say Yanny and I say Laurel, you say tomaato and I say tomatto, let’s call the whole thing off.
https://youtu.be/zZ3fjQa5Hls
Regards,
Jim
Just more proof that Trump is a Russian stooge that need to be impeached.
Awesome.
Laffed…coffee…out…of…my…nose…
But seriously, what a great look this gives us into the POTUS and his circle. What other inner circle would have been willing to make fun of themselves to give the rest of us a laugh?
I think you mean “covfefe” out of your nose….
Yep!
By the way, when did Anne Hathaway start working at the White House?
HAH!
I seem to recall the last White House doing some stuff like this. Of course, by now, I don’t recall the specifics.
Trump’s response was inspired.
Me too. They did it had to to with pitch, so the recording may well drop the lower sounds.
I think that people who hear “Laurel” may have high-frequency loss. (But it could well be more complex than that–I really haven’t thought it through). Here are the points that make me tend to believe this theory.
In general, messing with the pitch changes the perceived sound between the various sonorant consonants (the approximants, w, l, /j/, and the nasals /m/ and /n/).
The thing is, I have only addressed the subject of filtering out high frequencies. The other change, and it’s huge, when you alter the pitch of a recording is that the relationship between the formants changes.
A pitch change preserves the ratios between two resonant frequencies, but changes the absolute difference. The weird thing about formants is that they are mostly fixed frequencies. For example, the really low first formant that helps us to hear the y’s in “Yanny” is almost the same frequency for the sopranos and the basses!
Good for Hussein!
The original recording is of the word Laurel, but I think you are right that what you hear is also a function of the frequency response of the speaker(s) you are listening on.
https://www.wired.com/story/yanny-and-laurel-true-history/
This is like the whole blue/black or white/gold dress again. Perception is a very interesting thing.
Trump’s response is perfect.
No matter how I try, I can’t make myself hear “laurel”. I’ve listened on my phone and my computer speakers.
I don’t doubt for a minute that with a different audio set up, I might hear “laurel”, even though I want to hear “Yanny”
Interesting, someone somewhere posted that those with acute hearing abilities hear “Yanny”; I don’t think I’m in that group.
Now … for a real mind … challenge, tell me if you hear green needle or brainstorm? you can make yourself hear either:
Green needle or brainstorm?
Green Needle.
All I ever hear is Yanny.
But if you think “brainstorm”, you’ll hear brainstorm.
Even when I think “Green Needle,” I hear “Brainstorm.”
I tried that, but I never heard it.