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Ask HN: Why doesn't every home have an acceptable volume level for speech?
Talking too loudly would result in a computer voice telling you to lower your voice.
If you do not comply after several warnings, an alarm would sound that would make conversation impossible for a few minutes.
- EddieDante 4y ago> Talking too loudly would result in a computer voice telling you to lower your voice. If a computer presumed to tell me how loudly to talk, I would have it recycled. The computer is my servant, not my mistress.
- realPubkey 4y agoYou should go to youtube and watch how planet fitness ensures people do not train to loud. Then you understand why noone wants that at home.
- softwaredoug 4y agoI am that person for my kids :) And honestly, it seems better that kids hear it from other people, rather than machines. Because kids need to learn to respect other people's boundaries in a shared space. A lot of parenting is actually you modeling asserting your own needs so they know they can do the same.
- CM30 4y agoBecause most people wouldn't want that, and would find such a feature annoying as all hell? If you want it for your own home it's likely not that difficult to set up on a technical level, but I suspect it might not go down too well with any visitors.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoBecause most people don’t want a software or it’s developer telling them how to live their lives.
- marssaxman 4y agoI want to agree with you: but then I think of the alarm-clock software in my phone, which has a lot to say about what I need to do and when I need to do it, and somehow I don't mind that. I wonder what the difference is.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoYou are self imposing a certain discipline on yourself, as people have done for thousands of years. You’re not asking for your family’s speech volume to be policed. I get the technical similarities but the reasons are very different.
- verdverm 4y agoI wouldn't mind if my neighbors loudness was policed, though I'm not sure an alarm preventing talking would be any better
- VoodooJuJu 4y agoWhat the fuck?
- brudgers 4y agoI'm not sure that the solution for loud talking is more loud talking. I mean when our washing machine goes into its death spin cycle, we don't stop talking. Instead we up the volume or move away and enjoy the benefits of the inverse square law at 6db per doubling of distance. On the other hand, it sounds like a great jumping off point for a Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/simonegiertz https://www.youtube.com/c/simonegiertz
- marssaxman 4y agoIf you were to actually develop such a system, instead of using an alarm, you might consider simply playing the speaker's voice back with a slight delay. It is a surprisingly disorienting effect - most people cannot continue talking through it.