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Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Acceptable noise level + music

Mario Freitas — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:27:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Mario Freitas
Post title: Acceptable noise level + music

I live in a big town, in a neighborhood mostly with apartment and commercial buildings, bars, restaurants, etc., so lots of movement all day long.
From 7:00 am to about 9:00 pm, the noise level is the average metropolitan one: not intolerable, but not quiet at all. In addition to the regular noise of people, cars/trucks, honking, alarms, ambulances/police (there's a hospital nearby) and the like, there are four people in the house, so phones ring, people talk, TV is on, etc.
I can live well with that, but music is my regular companion, as it overlaps most of the undesired noises, most of the time, and hinders distraction instead of being one.

[Edited at 2017-12-12 04:33 GMT]

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Totally silent

Muriel Vasconcellos (X) — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 07:22:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
Post title: Totally silent

I have become deaf. I take off my hearing aids when I'm working and I love the silence. Unlike people who say that being deaf is "isolating," I feel blessed to be able to control how much I have to hear.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Different playlists

Mario Chavez (X) — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 01:34:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Mario Chavez (X)
Post title: Different playlists

In my so-called workspace, the ambient sound changes throughout the day: background documentary on TV, not too loud, iTunes playing some classical, jazz or soundtrack music, neighbor below banging his hammer or pushing his drill into something (but they're nice overall).

Now, the sound inside my headspace is something else altogether…

:D

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Good sounds

Patrice — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:59:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Patrice
Post title: Good sounds

Barking dogs. CNN in the background. CBC radio. Sometimes I like the sound effects of cooking shows. My versions of white noise :)

The sounds of a happy place.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Noisy

Daniel Frisano — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:13:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Daniel Frisano
Post title: Noisy

Noisy from my annoying neighbors banging on the walls for me to turn my music down. One can hardly concentrate.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Depends on the time

Helen Hagon — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 22:53:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Helen Hagon
Post title: Depends on the time

It is quiet during the day, until school finishes, and then the mayhem begins.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | all sorts of noise!

Kay Denney — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:37:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Kay Denney
Post title: all sorts of noise!

Since loneliness is my bugbear as a freelancer, I moved out of my office and into the kitchen. My laptop is at the end of the bar, away from the stove, and I can see all other inhabitants of the house as they stumble down for their first coffee, and all subsequent comings and goings too since our front door leads directly into the kitchen.

So there's often a fair bit of noise, although I won't be doing any serious work while people are coming and going. If I'm on something urgent at a time when everyone's in and out, I'll hide in the office. Mostly I'll be doing the draft for something easy like a fashion catalogue.

Once everyone's left, the cat will make sure I know she's there, yowling for her food and purring either on my lap or on the cushion on top of the radiator.

Sometimes, when doing simple stuff I don't need to think too hard about, I might put some music on. Although that often ends with me singing along and forgetting about my work.

The house next door but one is being seriously renovated, seems they're rebuilding the entire thing except the façade, so I can often hear machines and workers shouting.

In the summer, doors and windows open, I often hear my seriously talented musician neighbours practising, which is pure and utter delight.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Selected music

Joohee Kim — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:01:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Joohee Kim
Post title: Selected music

I like "Today at apple" playlist and I would call it my work song.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Generally quiet

Tina Vonhof (X) — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:37:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Tina Vonhof (X)
Post title: Generally quiet

Generally quiet except for Mondays (garbage pick-up day) and in the summertime when the grass is cut, usually at the exact moment when I had planned to go sit outside for a while.

[Edited at 2017-12-10 16:38 GMT]

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Peace and quiet

Nina Khmielnitzky — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:31:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Nina Khmielnitzky
Post title: Peace and quiet

Beside the humming of the computer fan and the clicking, it's silent and perfect!
I used to work as an in-house translator and some genius thought it would be a good idea to sit the translators near the kitchen and the exit. It was pure hell for a couple of years. Then I quit and became a freelancer. Now, I can enjoy the silence!

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Generally quiet

Nikki Scott-Despaigne — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:58:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Post title: Generally quiet

When I was younger I was convinced I worked better with music on. It was probably not the case then and it certainly isn't the case now. I find it really distracting.

However, I can work really well in stations and airports, in places where there is a lot of hustly and bustle going on around me, as long as none of it concerns me. It generally means I have to put an alarm alert on by screen, otherwise I might miss the train/plane.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | More or less silent

Mike Sadler (X) — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:29:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Mike Sadler (X)
Post title: More or less silent

I even have a PC with no fans in it, 'cos the fans in its predecessor annoyed me. Yesterday I heard an intermittent rhythmical sound that I couldn't identify at first. It turned out to be a pheasant in the back yard.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Other

Michael Harris — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:24:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Michael Harris
Post title: Other

Radio running in the background and the occasional airplane landing in our back garden (which I generally do not notice), other than that, pretty much quiet in my cellar office☺

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Dungeon

Jan Truper — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 11:57:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Jan Truper
Post title: Dungeon

It's dark and quiet in my dungeon.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Generally quiet

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:55:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Generally quiet

Now that my neighbor has finished a long and noisy project, I can hear just the rumbling of airplanes above my house approaching the airport and the occasional siren of an ambulance not able to get through the traffic. I like to have my TV on in the background.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Other

neilmac — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:41:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: neilmac
Post title: Other

I like to have the radio on in the background most of the time. Right now, Bob Dylan singig "Tangled Up in Blue" on BBC 6 music. It's on a PC in the other room, so it's just loud enough to be audible in the background without interfering with my speech recognition software.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Total silence, but depending on the outside

Martha Schwan — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:37:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Martha Schwan
Post title: Total silence, but depending on the outside

I live in a house and my peace and quiet depends very much on what happens outside in a daily basis. But in general, the environment inside my house is very pleasant to work and everything else.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | A bit noisy but all right

Yetta Jensen Bogarde — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:33:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Post title: A bit noisy but all right

I hear some noise coming from a belt highway only 150 m from my house.
Normally, that does not bother me, in fact, it adds some life.
However, when doing voice-overs it's a nuisance.

[Edited at 2017-12-10 10:36 GMT]

[Edited at 2017-12-10 10:36 GMT]

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Pretty quiet ...

Jennifer Forbes — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 09:48:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Jennifer Forbes
Post title: Pretty quiet ...

... but at the moment there's a near-gale blowing and I can hear the trees opposite creaking and swishing about, and the washing-machine gurgling away in the kitchen.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace? | Other

Julian Holmes — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:48:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: Julian Holmes
Post title: Other

Lots of constant and sporadic noise:

- the sound of the heating
- the humming of the fans operating inside my PCs
- the sound of 100's of pages being printed from a huge document
- the tappity tap and clickety clack of the keyboard as I type away
- background music when I feel like it
- mewing and meowing from cats in heat in the neighborhood, and
- the occasional explosion of sound of me losing my cool and blowing a gasket

Otherwise, very quiet. Very hunky dory.

Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?

ProZ.com Staff — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:10:02 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: What is the sound environment like in your workspace?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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