[HN Gopher] Sound of Colleagues
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Sound of Colleagues
Author : herbertl
Score : 65 points
Date : 2022-07-12 07:17 UTC (15 hours ago)
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| devdiary wrote:
| I am so going to use it
| yoyopa wrote:
| go dystopia
| phoronixrly wrote:
| Thanks, I hadn't realised until now that apparently I have office
| PTSD...
| k_sze wrote:
| Doesn't seem to work on iOS?
| jSherz wrote:
| I wish it would save your slider levels, e.g. in the URL, so you
| can bookmark your favourites.
| FerretFred wrote:
| Definitely needs That One Guy who tells "jokes" all day long, in
| between telling us about his latest trailer/dog/bear weekend
| escapade. _Say, did I ever tell you about ..._
| byschii wrote:
| also, from a previous post: https://soundsofthepub.com
| remoquete wrote:
| Or you'd just loop the menu sound from The Stanley Parable:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ8M6ElBk5s
| keyle wrote:
| Imagine the antisoundofcolleagues.com, an active listening noise
| cancelling website!
| blabberwocky wrote:
| That's just noise cancelling headphones. But, come to think of
| it, that should be a slider on this site, to turn down all the
| other sounds...
| ziml77 wrote:
| If only. Noise cancelling headphones can block out droning
| sounds but are limited to their passive isolation when it
| comes to voices, especially higher pitched ones. A few years
| ago I was positioned close to a woman who was always on the
| phone talking loudly with vendors and there was nothing I
| could do aside from risking hearing damage to make that
| disappear. And now, while it's better since I'm not near her
| anymore, it's still tough when multiple conversations are
| going on around me all at once.
| dreen wrote:
| This page is proof everyone has different needs. I sometimes
| struggle to read a single sentence with a single conversation
| going on in the background.
| sIacker wrote:
| I wonder if anyone has proper research on wether this makes you
| more productive or not.
| bufordtwain wrote:
| I prefer the background sound of rain, there are a lot of long
| rain videos on youtube and I am very grateful to the people who
| post them.
| anotherhue wrote:
| Needs two dozen slightly desynchronised 'upcoming meeting' alerts
| playing unmuted.
|
| The modern day call to prayer.
| SlackingOff123 wrote:
| This[1] was submitted a while back. Might be just what you
| need.
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561296
| boopmaster wrote:
| I appreciate the toggle on volume, but it desperately needs some
| kind of random silence insertion threshold as well, to space out
| the distance more randomly. Like what if I don't mind hearing a
| telephone, but it doesn't need to be every 30 seconds? I like
| this project, dont' get me wrong. I just think each of these
| components also needs a way to space out the time between cars
| driving by etc., while presently there is only a volume slider.
| kieckerjan wrote:
| I had a colleague who used to sit across me. Really swell guy,
| but literally every sip of coffee he took from his mug ended with
| a smacking sound followed by a contented exhalation. Boy, did he
| love his coffee! Believe me, I do not have misophonia but that
| nearly drove me insane.
| teddyh wrote:
| Isn't "Room tone" really the sound of the HVAC?
| turing_complete wrote:
| Dystopian.
| pjerem wrote:
| Every time I stumble upon a project like this one, I'm impressed
| that people would miss the sound of open space. I can understand
| that people have some reasons to prefer going to the office
| instead of WFH but, missing the sound of it ?
| mstade wrote:
| I'm this guy. I can't sit in a too quiet space and get anything
| done, I'll go stir crazy. I usually work out of coffee shops or
| on my balcony where I can hear kids playing in the yard, some
| traffic, someone listening to radio a bit further away.. random
| noise. Without it, after maybe 20-30 minutes I get antsy and
| need to get out.
|
| I could do without all the bird noises though, the sea gulls
| here are incredibly annoying.
| blablabla123 wrote:
| Same for me. I mean for really difficult and focussed work I
| prefer a very quiet place but for rather standard work an
| open space is perfect, keeps me from falling asleep
| prmoustache wrote:
| All it takes is opening a window really.
| kgeist wrote:
| > I can't sit in a too quiet space
|
| Music doesn't help? Everyone at our office has headphones on
| with music exactly to stop hearing distracting background
| noise.
|
| Nothing really changes for me when I go remote - same music.
| tayo42 wrote:
| Radios and kids playing are the worst noises. Idk how you do
| it. I like the sounds of birds lol.
| edem wrote:
| I don't get this. At literally all the places I've worked were
| filled with people trying to shut this kind of noise out with
| headphones...and now we have an app that recreates this horrible
| noise? Why?
| dspillett wrote:
| Needs more irritatingly off-rhythm tapping of pens on desk and
| feet on floor.
| rcarmo wrote:
| Needs someone coming up to you and asking if you have a minute
| every 30 seconds
| FerretFred wrote:
| THIS ^^^ !!!!!
| KMag wrote:
| ... or the person tapping you on your shoulder to inform you
| that you're wearing headphones, your IM is on do-not-disturb
| and you're not sitting in your usual desk (but still responding
| to email).
| philote wrote:
| Also, the sound of someone in the next cubicle eating something
| crispy with their mouth open.
| actually_a_dog wrote:
| That's the office dog.
| smcleod wrote:
| One of the many things I don't miss at all from office work.
| PeterStuer wrote:
| If only the reverse existed. A lightweight piece of software you
| can play through your speakers to disappear all that noise from a
| real office environment.
|
| I guess the industrial grade hearing protector industry would
| take a major hit though.
| Kosirich wrote:
| I don't know how noisy the office you are referring to is, but
| I found that using noise cancelation headphones
| (bose,sony,jabra) and having Grey Noise (
| https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/greyNoiseGenerator.php ) does
| produce good results while not being distracting.
| soco wrote:
| I used the paid subscription of brain.fm and was very happy
| with it (when I has in the office, that is). Just be warned,
| it's eating up lots of bandwidth and data plan.
|
| https://www.brain.fm/
| philote wrote:
| I'm currently listening to brain.fm! I'm not sure how well
| it actually influences your brain to concentrate, but I
| find it's at least a decent semi-conscious reminder to stay
| focused. And it does also help drown out other noises.
| PeterStuer wrote:
| I have a Bose Quitcomfort 35 set that I use for travelling. I
| can't stand the "pressure" in ear feel for a long time when
| the noise cancellation in turned on.
|
| Besides, while they are good in cancelling e.g. aircraft
| engine noise, the active part does nothing to prevent e.g.
| human voices, and even high end headsets are far inferiour to
| dirt cheap industrial hearing protection where passive
| isolation is concerned.
|
| I don't want to have to drown out ofice noise by blasting my
| ears with noise. I find having to wear any head/ear device a
| nuisance, and I tried a lot (fwiw cheap on ear Sound Blaster
| Jam V2's were unexpectedly comfortable and also great
| sounding to boot).
|
| I have tankfully worked from home for the most part of the
| last decade (no, what was called WFH during the Covid
| lockdowns is not the same at all).
| seydor wrote:
| You mean white noise
| SomeBoolshit wrote:
| That's just switching from one kind of noise to another.
| sokoloff wrote:
| Sound/speech masking is incredibly effective. We had a
| trial system in part of our old office and in the area
| covered by the system, it felt natural but when you knew to
| listen for the reduction in perceived
| annoyance/disturbance, it was much lower.
|
| It's not white noise, though:
| https://cambridgesound.com/learn/sound-masking-101/
|
| (The trial was winter of 2019, then something happened in
| spring 2020 to keep us from going forward...)
| steanne wrote:
| no?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise
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| wildmanx wrote:
| Office designers on the European continent have come up with an
| ingenious invention for this: Individual offices!
|
| Site managers in North America rarely want to hear this, since
| it's more expensive and supposedly prevents close collaboration
| and encourages slackers, but that's just a bunch of BS. It's
| absolutely fantastic to just be able to close your door and
| have peace and quiet if you need to get into flow. Much better
| than being forced to wear headphones all day, for noise-
| cancellation or forced-music-listening instead.
| wreath wrote:
| > Office designers on the European continent have come up
| with an ingenious invention for this: Individual offices!
|
| Where did you get this idea from?
|
| At best, companies have _team_ rooms that hosts 5-8 people
| but not individual offices.
| wildmanx wrote:
| I work in Europe at a nice company with nice offices. It's
| beautiful.
|
| Most of the time we all have our doors wide open, it's
| glass doors, mostly glass walls, very bright, very modern.
| Everybody is welcome to stop by at any time when the door
| is open. Door closed means "please don't disturb unless
| it's an emergency". People close doors to have longer
| discussions, to have confidential discussions, or to have
| peace and quiet.
|
| The doors basically serve the same purpose as headsets.
| They just make more sense and are more ... human.
|
| Yes, some offices house more than one person. Typically 2,
| some have 3. But the employees in this situation are quite
| content with this and could request single offices at any
| time.
| bearmode wrote:
| We have a big problem with open plan offices in Europe as
| well. Individual offices are far rarer than open plan.
| kgeist wrote:
| We have special closed cubicles which aren't assigned to
| anyone on every floor (I don't know their name in English)
| which can be booked if you want isolation but they're in
| such demand that they're often unavailable.
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