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MyNoise – Background Noise Generators

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Re: MyNoise – Background Noise Generators

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This is my favorite background sound website for focused work. Been using it for years. I have my own custom brown noise, and I also like the various rain noises - so soothing! Perfect when you are in a noisy environment and want to focus.

Re: MyNoise – Background Noise Generators

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I expected a website offering to use your microphone to record, invert and cancel background noise via the speakers. Turns out the website is offering prerecorded sounds instead, not really cancelling anything. Still though, surely someone has tried my idea? It would likely need some adjustability to match the phase delay between microphone and ears-via-speakers but I guess it could work.

Re: MyNoise – Background Noise Generators

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post #7

I expected a website offering to use your microphone to record, invert and cancel background noise via the speakers. Turns out the website is offering prerecorded sounds instead, not really cancelling anything. Still though, surely someone has tried my idea? It would likely need some adjustability to match the phase delay between microphone and ears-via-speakers but I guess it could work.

I don't think it can be done.. active noise cancellation needs to be really really fast and is done using dedicated hardware afaik.

Re: MyNoise – Background Noise Generators

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post #7

I expected a website offering to use your microphone to record, invert and cancel background noise via the speakers. Turns out the website is offering prerecorded sounds instead, not really cancelling anything. Still though, surely someone has tried my idea? It would likely need some adjustability to match the phase delay between microphone and ears-via-speakers but I guess it could work.

I don't think it can be done.. active noise cancellation needs to be really really fast and is done using dedicated hardware afaik.

> is done using dedicated hardware afaik.

Agree with the first part of your answer, but not sure what you mean by this second part.

There is dedicated hardware for it, then there are solution using your generic gpu (ex Nvidia RTX Voice), then there are solution using your generic cpu (ex whatever the name of the one discord desktop client provides).

Re: MyNoise – Background Noise Generators

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post #7

I expected a website offering to use your microphone to record, invert and cancel background noise via the speakers. Turns out the website is offering prerecorded sounds instead, not really cancelling anything. Still though, surely someone has tried my idea? It would likely need some adjustability to match the phase delay between microphone and ears-via-speakers but I guess it could work.

I don't think it can be done.. active noise cancellation needs to be really really fast and is done using dedicated hardware afaik.

True, and shows how far we have fallen in the war against latency.

In theory it should be possible with a standard sound card, or a sound chip in the motherboard.

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