| Subject: What Is "White Noise"? Just a little info for those who need to make a choice between that and President Shrubbery. |
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Happy Sleeper
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Date Posted: Tue, January 29, 2008 12:09:07
In reply to:
Peggy
's message, "I would listen to white noise before I'd listen one second to that idiot!" on Mon, January 28, 2008 2:43:14
What Is "White Noise"?
White Noise is based on the phenomenon that when "low level background noise" is added to an environment, intruding speech and noises are less intelligible. The term "white noise" is widely used when referring to speech privacy or sound masking systems, although these systems don't actually use white noise.
The technology behind white noise came out of the realization by scientists and engineers that oral privacy is actually a simple matter of making speech unintelligible. That is, if each of us can't understand what the other is saying, we effectively have established oral privacy - even though we may still be able to see and, to some extent, hear each other.
White Noise "fills in" the sound spectrum around you with barely perceptible low level noise, so that speech is rendered unintelligible. It's actually designed to sound like typical office air conditioning noise, so that you won't notice it. In other words, it's a gentle "whooshing" sound.
George Shrubbery, on the other hand, is an annoying, abnoxious barfing sound. And if that's not enough to want to gag yourself with a spoon, it gets worse watching Dick "shoot-em-up" Cheney in back of him.
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