Chuma Kabaghe

Beyond Laurel/Yanny: An Autoencoder-Enabled Search for Polyperceivable Audio

The famous “laurel/yanny” phenomenon references an audio clip that elicits dramatically different responses from different listeners. For the original clip, roughly half the population hears the word “laurel,” while the other half hears “yanny.” How common are such “polyperceivable” audio clips? In…