Working from home and missing the noises of coffee shops or offices?
A good coffee shop is an oasis for the creative mind. It’s where you go to get away from the bad habits and distractions of your home office or studio.
It’s where you go to get your creativity flowing and to get some work done.
However, there’s a catch to real world chatter: when the human brain perceives a sound it considers to be speech, it will focus on it and turn it into meaningful language.
This usually happens in spaces where the ambient noise level is low, like in modern “open space” offices or creative industries’ studios.
This is bad for both concentration and creativity: you try to focus on your work, but your brain keeps on processing speech in the background, interrupting you as soon as some intelligible speech has been decoded.
The key then is to find a way to have the background noise approximate the sound of human speech without any discernible words.
And that’s exactly what MyNoise has done with their Cafe Restaurant noise generator.
You can use Cafe Restaurant as a creativity booster or to add ambiance in a too-quiet space. But its true power is revealed when used to mask distracting noises like workplace chatter or nearby conversations.
To deal with these problematic sounds, pop your headphones on and adjust the volume of myNoise high enough to mask it.
After a few minutes your brain will stop trying to decode the babble and the noise will recede into the background.
If some real world sounds intrude, they will be heard as babble noise and will no longer pose any sort of distraction to your work.
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