AudioNoise

About AudioNoise Android App

Applications:

- Office background masking
- Baby soothing
- Tinnitus masker and noiser
- Retraining therapy with or without notch (planned)
- Hyperacusis training
- Cochlear-implant training
- Transfer function measurements (e.g. of your speakers)

Features:

- White, pink and physiological noise

planned:

- Adjustable frequency limits
- Tinnitus frequency finder
- Spectral notch for tinnitus therapy
- Surf effect

With AudioNoise you can take advantage of the so-called masking effect: by presenting a low level broadband noise to the ear it is possible to effectively block other (possibly disturbing) sounds. The point is that a broaband noise is much less disturbing than, say, a high pitched tone, because the brain doesn't interpret it as important information. In fact, after listening to broadband noise for 10-15 minutes you won't even notice it any more unless it is fairly loud.

AudioNoise can generate different types of noise: white, pink, and so-called physiological noise. The latter is adapted to the human ear and stimulates the inner ear (the cochlea) uniformly over its entire length. Each noise type can be restricted to an arbitrary frequency range.

Planned:

In order to make the noise even more relaxing, you can apply the "surf effect" to it. This means a waxing and waning of the noise similar to an ocean surf. With AudioNoise you can choose the strength and period (timescale) of that effect.

AudioNoise plays the noise on your Android device.

In addition, AudioNoise contains a special tool for tinnitus diagnosis: the Tinnitus Finder. This is a tone generator with a slider to set pitch. Together with your device's volume control patients can match the AudioNoise-tone to their tinnitus in order to estimate the tinnitus frequency and to give others an impression of their tinnitus level.