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[Android] Sound Meter - Decibel Meter $0 (Was $4.89) @ Google Play Store

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[Android] Sound Meter - Decibel Meter $0 (Was $4.89) @ Google Play Store
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Iluvfreebies on 19/10/2024 - 21:37 play.google.com (6389 clicks)
Last edited 19/10/2024 - 21:44 by 1 other user

Think about telling someone how loud they are? Don't.

The sound meter Pro app uses your microphone to measure noise volume in decibels(dB). With this app, you can easily measure the current level of environmental noise. The best helper to detect noise.

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  • mr_asstight on 19/10/2024 - 21:45
    +3

    WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

    • ilikeit on 19/10/2024 - 23:39

      Shhh.

  • Ryno61 on 19/10/2024 - 22:01
    +1

    Anything similar for Apple?

    • Neodyminus on 19/10/2024 - 22:08
      +3

      dB meter does what you need

      Has a premium option available, but doesn't shove it in your face too much

    • Salesniper on 19/10/2024 - 23:15

      If you have an Apple Watch, it’s default hearing app works well!

    • taki on 19/10/2024 - 23:34
      -1

      S23 Ultra, now discounted, with AI working since March (sprry ;)

    • 5kbjvb3o on 20/10/2024 - 23:42
      +1

      https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/noise/about/app.html

      Reputable source, free, data not collected.

      • Euthyphro on 21/10/2024 - 07:56
        -1

        Apple only.

  • wonderboy4 on 19/10/2024 - 22:03
    +2

    @Iluvfreebies Haha, now you just silently hand them a printout of their decibel reading and walk away 🤣

    Thankyou 👍 I grabbed it, looks really cool. My cat purring on my chest is: "quiet library" 😸

  • Ozjoey on 19/10/2024 - 22:24

    Any app to stop dogs barking at high dB?

    • Bisky1 on 19/10/2024 - 22:48
      +1
      1. Strap a go-pro esque phone holder for dogs, with the phone set up to this app.
      2. Set up a 'high dB' trigger, i.e. 90dB, as a trigger that sets into motion..
      3. The shock collar
      4. Dog now associates being overly loud with a shock - negative punishment.
      • justemptyvitamins on 19/10/2024 - 22:56
        +2

        *positive punishment

        • Bisky1 on 19/10/2024 - 23:13
          +1

          Thanks mate - have been thinking of it wrong for a few years now, then :(

          • abadacus on 20/10/2024 - 06:44

            @Bisky1: Adding stimulus, hence positive

            • GordonD on 20/10/2024 - 10:30
              +2

              @abadacus: The correct technical term is negative feedback. That is when the response reduces the quantity of what it is responding to. Positive feedback would be responding to the dog barking by doing something that caused it to bark more/louder.

              Note that the term relates to the change in quantity of the response not the desirability of it. So if you did something to reduce the amount of misbehaving by a child, and it did, that would be negative feedback that had a positive result. Is that clear?

              • shortielah on 20/10/2024 - 10:39
                -1

                @GordonD:

                • Positive punishment: Adding something unpleasant to decrease the behavior (like a shock for barking).
                • Negative punishment: Removing something pleasant to decrease the behavior (like taking away a toy when a dog misbehaves).
                • GordonD on 20/10/2024 - 10:42
                  -3

                  @shortielah:

                  Positive punishment
                  Negative punishment

                  Punishment is punishment. It isn't positive or negative.

                  And what you called "negative punishment" is pointless with a dog, because it isn't smart enough to understand that you taking away its toy is anything to do with it barking.

                  • Lps on 20/10/2024 - 14:22
                    -1

                    @GordonD: Of course it's also possible that humans aren't smart enough to know how smart dogs are.

                    • belongsinforums on 20/10/2024 - 17:36
                      -1

                      @Lps: Do the capacity experiment with a dog and report the results back to me

                    • GordonD on 21/10/2024 - 11:43
                      -1

                      @Lps: Or that some people think dogs are smart because they're as smart as they are.

                  • justemptyvitamins on 20/10/2024 - 18:14
                    +2

                    @GordonD: Punishment can be positive or negative, just like how reinforcement can be positive or negative. It's not a matter of good or bad, it's about adding or removing something to increase or decrease the likelihood of specific behaviours.

    • Euthyphro on 21/10/2024 - 07:57

      Have a wife yelling at the dog. It will wimp.

  • Rated3 on 19/10/2024 - 22:57
    +1

    Time to see how loud my Falcon is (it's quiet)

  • cmoddoo on 19/10/2024 - 22:57
    +1

    Has anyone tested how accurate this is?

    • Jaymac on 19/10/2024 - 23:02
      +5

      1) Download free app 2) Test later

    • StephenCurry on 19/10/2024 - 23:08
      +7

      Downloaded several free ones before. The results are inconsistent and vary big time between apps…

      • gromit on 19/10/2024 - 23:18
        +8

        Not suprising really, phone mics are not designed for this, they are all various levels of shit. But at this price it doesn't matter.

    • OZKap on 19/10/2024 - 23:11
      +8

      the best you can hope for with any of these apps is that it's consistent enough to tell you that a sound is louder/quieter than another sound sound measured by the same app.

    • spaceflight on 19/10/2024 - 23:23
      +8

      There's some reaons here why using a phone for SPL isnt ideal
      https://studiosixdigital.com/audio-hardware/generic-audio-ha…

      And then some variation between apps
      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10686533/

    • joelmuzz on 20/10/2024 - 08:15
      +3

      It has a calibrate setting where you are supposed to calibrate against a real dB meter.
      So assume not accurate at all until calibrated.

      • capslock janitor on 20/10/2024 - 15:14
        +2

        So we need a real dB meter deal just to calibre this free meter

    • M00Cow on 20/10/2024 - 08:57
      +2

      not accurate at all.

      firstly it's android so there's 1000's of devices with 1000's of different microphones.

      a few years ago I had a WHS complaint about noise in a server room being "91db" & showed me a phone app. i downloaded it and mine said 89db. we got an expert in & his equipment came back with 82db

  • subydooby on 20/10/2024 - 00:23
    -3

    I wish I had a phone….

  • bcYield on 20/10/2024 - 07:30

    Not sure how accurate it is but good enough for checking the noise of this jisulife fan.

    • voncrane on 20/10/2024 - 07:56

      And the verdict is……..?

  • cohiba30 on 20/10/2024 - 08:58
    +8

    Why does this audio app need permission access to my: precise location, photos/files/storage, camera, full network access etc ?

    • poxy001 on 20/10/2024 - 09:35
      +4

      When some thing is free "you" are the product

      • cohiba30 on 20/10/2024 - 13:17
        +2

        I agree, if they can't provide an explanation/justification it's not worth the risk to privacy and surveillance.

    • Lizard Spock on 20/10/2024 - 13:23
      +7

      It only needed microphone permission for me and it works fine without the other permission requests (it didn't even prompt for the other permissions on my phone, just microphone).

  • roadsign on 20/10/2024 - 10:01
    +7

    If you use an iPhone, get this app published by the US government National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health:

    https://apps.apple.com/au/app/niosh-sound-level-meter/id1096…

    I’ve held my phone running this app next to professional sound level meter monitoring equipment (eg Brüel & Kjær 2270 SLM with 4189 microphone) and the result is mostly the same for A-weighted decibel metrics in common workplace environments. It doesn’t work well in wind (the phone needs a wind sock) or with very loud impulse sound (bangs and shocks).

    The reason this works is because iPhones models will use common microphones which the app can calibrate for using manufacturer specs. Unfortunately if you use an Android device you are likely out of luck as there is a much wider variation in microphones, analogue-to-digital converters and software audio processing, and most apps will either not have an exhaustive library of calibration data for each phone, and some phones may be impossible to get accurate data out of.

    • Zackeroo on 20/10/2024 - 15:37

      This is spot on. Many don't realise the app's accuracy is dependent on your phone mic and the condition of the mic, too. If you have a 5-year-old Samsung with a clogged-up mic, you can't expect to receive accurate results from this.

    • [Deactivated] on 20/10/2024 - 16:43

      @roadsign - C-weighted is generally what is used for audio equipment, the reason I own an SPL meter is for the purpose of measuring home theatre audio, I wouldn’t own an SPL meter otherwise.

    • Euthyphro on 21/10/2024 - 08:00

      It seems that the US government endorses proprietary iOS instead of open-source Android.

  • [Deactivated] on 20/10/2024 - 13:35
    -1

    I own and use a Galaxy Audio CM-140 SPL meter for taking accurate measurements, I would never use an SPL meter app on a phone for anything serious where an accurate and precise reading is required.

    • Euthyphro on 21/10/2024 - 08:02

      $238 on Amazon, pricy for occasional (non-professional) auditing the noise level.

      • [Deactivated] on 21/10/2024 - 12:27
        -1

        @Euthyphro - I didn’t pay $238 for it, I have owned my Galaxy Audio CM-140 SPL meter for a little over a decade, and paid around $100 brand new for it at the time. Many audio enthusiasts regarded it as one of the best performing SPL meters for the price at the time, and still do, and to this day it’s still a better product and outperforms any SPL meter phone app for taking audio measurements and accuracy.

  • frewer on 20/10/2024 - 13:38
    +1

    My kids keep saying my fart is loud. Time too prove they're wrong.

  • Korban Dallas on 20/10/2024 - 16:36

    Apparently 94db in my car at idle. Accurate?

  • Plug on 20/10/2024 - 18:39

    Wouldn't trust this app. Privacy policy indicates they can use any data they want.

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