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  2. Background noise - Wikipedia

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    Background noise is an important concept in setting noise levels. Background noises include environmental noises such as water waves, traffic noise, alarms, extraneous speech, bioacoustic noise from animals, and electrical noise from devices such as refrigerators, air conditioning, power supplies, and motors. The prevention or reduction of ...

  3. Comfort noise - Wikipedia

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    the speech may sound "choppy" (see noise gate) and difficult to understand; the sudden change in sound level can be jarring to the listener. To counteract these effects, comfort noise is added, usually on the receiving end in wireless or VoIP systems, to fill in the silent portions of transmissions with artificial noise.

  4. Ambient noise level - Wikipedia

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    Integrating Sound Level Meter. In atmospheric sounding and noise pollution, ambient noise level (sometimes called background noise level, reference sound level, or room noise level) is the background sound pressure level at a given location, normally specified as a reference level to study a new intrusive sound source.

  5. Acoustic shock - Wikipedia

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    None has yet been shown to be fully effective. Devices which solely limit noise levels to about 85 dB have been shown in field trials to be ineffective (data from these trials has not been released into the public domain). Limiting background noise and office stress may also reduce the chance of an acoustic shock.

  6. MyNoise - Wikipedia

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    MyNoise Developer(s) Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon Website mynoise.net MyNoise (stylised as myNoise) is a white noise website and app created by Stéphane Pigeon. It offers many different natural soundscapes, as well as synthetic noises such as white noise. History MyNoise was created in 2013 by Stéphane Pigeon, a Belgian audio processing engineer, sound designer, and electrical engineer. By April ...

  7. Occupational noise - Wikipedia

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    Noise, in the context of industrial noise, is hazardous to a person's hearing because of its loud intensity through repeated long-term exposure. In order for noise to cause hearing impairment for the worker, the noise has to be close enough, loud enough, and sustained long enough to damage the hair cells in the auditory system. These factors ...

  8. Turn on or off vacation response in New AOL Mail

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    Turn a vacation response on or off. 1. Click on the Settings icon | select More settings. 2. Click Vacation response. 3. Toggle on or off Enable vacation response. 4. Select the dates you want it active. 5. Enter your response message. 6. Click Save. Turn on another response for specific domains. 1. Toggle on or off Add another response. 2.

  9. Sound masking - Wikipedia

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    Sound masking is the inclusion of generated sound (commonly, though inaccurately, referred to as "white noise" or "pink noise") into an environment to mask unwanted sound. It relies on auditory masking. Sound masking is not a form of active noise control (noise cancellation technique); however, it can reduce or eliminate the perception of sound ...