It is normal to debate over the political kinds of stuff and make them viral. It is even okay to take the side of the favorite team and compete with the friends over the internet. However, the computer-generated audio clip that sounds uncanny is hitting the internet –there is new moot over the strange recorded word which sounds two different words when listened at the different pitch, the word has turned contagious over the internet and already has crossed 27 billion views just over 6 days, after it was put 13th May on Reddit.
After a smash hit, it was posted on Twitter, where Twitteratis have not braced the like button. The post is liked over 50, 000 times. The argument also continued on the twitter, where different people opined their views on the sound.
So how come people hear two different words from the same recording?
One theory presented in the Guardian is that the illusion is an example of “perceptually ambiguous stimulus.” Professor David Alais from The University of Sydney’s school of psychology said this happens when the brain can’t decide on exactly what it is seeing (or hearing). “They can be seen in two ways, and often the mind flips back and forth between the two interpretations,” he said. “If there is little ambiguity, the brain locks on to a single perceptual interpretation. Here, the Yanny/Laurel sound is meant to be ambiguous because each sound has a similar timing and energy content — so in principle it’s confusable.”
It is the same phenomenon that occurs when people observe Rubin’s Vase, an image that can be seen as either a vase or two faces in profile.
Others suggest that because the audio is noisy, it could disrupt how people hear the word and so your brain fills in with what it thinks it should be hearing. The frequency of the audio clip and visual cues may also play a part, according to the Verge.
The debate is on conflagration on the social-media, many internet pundits believe it will rage further in days to come.
