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Re:The volume is too damn high on flights by xenonysf on Friday February 06, 2015 @10:22AM (#9009351)
So when are we all starting to measure sounds around us (including cafes, vehicles, cities) and create a map of quietest things and places?
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Re:The volume is too damn high on flights by cryptoz on Friday February 06, 2015 @10:24AM (#9009363)
There is work being done on crowdsourcing ambient sound: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/520606/noise-pollution-...

It's a neat problem. You can turn on smartphone microphones and listen for noise levels to measure for noise pollution and law violations, etc. However, you have to develop algorithms that filter our human conversations (for this application linked above), and the privacy implications are astronomical.

Edit: http://www.citylab.com/tech/2013/05/crowdsourcing-citys-quie...

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Re:The volume is too damn high on flights by edsykes on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:27AM (#9009721)
we've also developed an early version of this. Still very early stages and we aren't making use of all the data yet:

http://noise.1self.co

disclosure: I'm a founder

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