A popular kind of background noise can actually mess with your sleep quality

Color us surprised. Plenty of people use apps and ambient sound machines to reduce clamor and improve their sleep — but not all noise is created equal. In fact, new research suggests that a particular ...
Psychology Today

Sound Machines for Sleep Do More Harm Than Good

Sound machines promise better sleep, but new research suggests they may quietly steal your REM and deep sleep.

The Sleep Sound Millions Trust May Be Stealing Your REM Sleep

Sound machines and “sleep sounds” are often marketed as a cure for restless nights, but new research suggests they may ...
The New York Times

Audio Nonfiction

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. New this week by Belle Burden Random House Audio Burden retraces her marriage of 20 years in search of clues to help shape her understanding ...
IEEE

Contrastive Audio Spectrogram Transformer for Robust Recognition of Environmental Acoustic Signals

Abstract: In recent years, environmental sound classification has become an essential component in intelligent urban monitoring systems, smart infrastructure, and public noise analysis. However, this ...
IEEE

AST-SED: An Effective Sound Event Detection Method Based on Audio Spectrogram Transformer

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an effective sound event detection (SED) method based on the audio spectrogram transformer (AST) model, pretrained on the large-scale AudioSet for audio tagging (AT ...
GitHub

Audio Classifier: Music vs Noise

This project implements a real-time audio classification system that distinguishes between music and noise using deep learning. The system converts audio signals into mel-spectrograms and classifies ...