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So when are we all starting to measure sounds around us (including cafes, vehicles, cities) and create a map of quietest things and places?

• cryptoz 12y ago
  There is work being done on crowdsourcing ambient sound: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/520606/noise-pollution-maps-crowdsourced-from-smartphone-data/ 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-quiet-corners/5597/ http://www.citylab.com/tech/2013/05/crowdsourcing-citys-quie...
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  • edsykes 12y ago
    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 http://noise.1self.co disclosure: I'm a founder