What is sound masking?
Sound masking is the technology we use to achieve speech privacy for a specific area that is plagued by distraction and discomfort. This is done by adding neutral noise to the background so as to render the distracting noise powerless.
What are the benefits of sound masking?
Now it’s time to discuss speech privacy. If I know you’re talking, can even hear you, but can’t understand what you’re saying, then I am experiencing speech privacy (and so are you!).
The reason speech privacy is important is twofold:
• privacy
• productivity
How does sound masking work?
Adding noise to unwanted noise seems counter-intuitive, doesn’t it? The logic is that the white noise employed is non-repetitious broad band sound. There is no natural pattern, but rather sound at all frequencies. The magic happens when these sounds fill in the spectrum, so that workers, patients, and anyone can tune it all out.
In hospitals, this means more relaxed and better-rested patients; in the government and military world, this means private conversations; and in the workplace, this means a less stressed and more focused environment for maximum employee engagement.