hey, amazing
it also works when you close your eyes during the video


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_Effect


it's actually a dub, you can concentrate on the sound and look at him and see the discrepancy
It's a video of a guy going something like - ga - ga

while the audio is ba, ba

Poo Poo

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

That's pretty amazing.

Whoa. That even works when you look towards and away from the video during a single playback.

That is too strange for me, I'm outta here!

Actually, it gets weirder still. The video and audio sometimes goes out of sync on my machine (thanks firefox, you resource pig). So in this particular case the audio lagged about a second behind the video. Turns out that if you don't actually see his mouth move at the *exact* time he speaks, you will still hear "ba-ba"...

Great sift.

For gods sake, have none of you heard of sound frequency? Pitch and frequency and wave length are all used by your ear to determine sound. Whats lacking in this video is proper audible wavelength. Your brain makes up for this when it see's how the person is moving their mouth.

Over a telephone/ radio, especially old phones it was impossible to determine P - T - C and other letters.. due to only being able to transmit a certain range of audio.. which is why words like Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Foxtrot were used.

New study's into Dislexia have shown that some children / adults have an audible deficiency which might make it hard for them to determine sound rather than determine words.

For gods sake, have none of you heard of sound frequency? Pitch and frequency and wave length are all used by your ear to determine sound.

Sound frequency? Hmmmm. never heard of it. :rolls eyes:

What makes this interesting is *precisely* the fact that knowing what is happening doesn't negate the effect....in fact, judging by the comments here, virtually nothing you can do will neutralize the effect. And I agree with jmzero: this is not like saying p t or c on the phone because in those cases, once someone tells you which letter they're saying you can usually "hear" it properly.

I can look away from the video and force myself to here either da-da or ba-ba by thinking that I'm going to hear it. It does require some concentration.

That's bad.

You shouldn't have said how it would sound when you don't look at him, you should've just said to try it, otherwise it influences the result.

Btw when I was looking at him I thought he was saying "Anal ha"

I thought he was making the sound /q/ in the back of his mouth. The sound doesn't occur in English.

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I'm confused. What I hear is ba-ba, whether I look away or directly at him.

I think the dead fix is wrong. I also only hear "ba-ba"

That thumb reminds me of this music video.

@thinker247 & @residue: I think it's your brains' that aren't doing their job. Might be the low resolution picture or.. other anomalies.

Works fine for me.

Since I read the description first, I clearly heard ba-ba and saw the discrepancy in the dubbing. It would probably be a better effect if the description was changed to "Read the comments after watching."