Hi
I house share with people who speak loud and just requesting to speak low is not working. Hence, I was wondering if someone knew about a device please that plays an alarm or something to give the hint to speak at a low volume?
Alarm When Someone Speaks Loud in a House to Help Me Survive House Sharing
dealover on 02/04/2020 - 14:08
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The problem with this is that it will 'trigger' at any noise, not just the shouty flatmates. It will become a fun game for the flatmates to see what noises around the house will trigger it.
The Extech SL130W has User settable high or low limit (30 to 130dB) with output to drive external relay module.
Something with a police like red circling light ? I will need one for when I can go back to the office ( no hurry )
IMO for that kind of money you would be better off buying some decent noise cancelling headphones/earbuds
Headphones?
An alarm going off all the time could also be annoying.
We all go quiet… eventually.
so dark!
Which is totally unreasonable.
grabs popcorn
You have to eat at low volume please.
I honestly can't tell if this is real life, or just fantasy.
real
I know you're a poor boy
That needs no sympathy?
Because you're easy come, easy go?
@EightImmortals: Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
So you don't confuse them with mountains
Caught in a landslide
no escape from reality
We'll make a supersonic man out of you
Mosquito Zapper
or
Find another house share?
I've found another product that you may also find is an alternative…
https://www.3m.com.au/3M/en_AU/company-au/all-3m-products/~/…
Na I wish it was them
Are you saying you have quiet kids?
Oh man. This sounds sad. Hoping it’s not what I think might have happened. Stay strong.
I'm sorry that I don't have any useful suggestions, and I know that this must be very frustrating for you, but this is honestly one of the most passive-aggressive things I have ever heard.
thanks for trying
You could add cheap soundproofing to your room with some towels and wooden frames!
You can't be serious! I've run out of popcorn in these challenging times. If anyone here has hoarded microwave popcorn can I buy some as I'm guessing I will need at least 10 packs by the time this thread runs out of steam.
If you really are serious then this will never work. If such a device exists it has to have a microphone to capture the voice and the ability so separate out human voice(alright up to here you are Ok as we have Alexa and Google Assistant) and a feature to set a max volume threshold to trigger the alarm. So far so good.
Here is where it gets stupid. You have the device down the hallway and someone is yelling in the living room so how the hell is this device going to know that compared to someone being loud right next to it? Unless you are ready to hang one of these imaginary devices around the neck of each and every housemate it is non-implementable.
The idea of tying around the neck sounds tempting
With a shocker for when they are loud ?
A barking shock collar?
Slam the door
Well I have a better idea: This
Nothing works better than shock therapy!
Get one for each of your housemates and you hold onto the remote!
Look for a decibel phone app.
Already got it thank you
put on some ear muffs you big baby.
thanks for the unwanted dark comments darkmoss
Sincerely, you just need to move.
They're not going to stop talking, for you, at what you consider too loud… and if they need to, it will just be an awkward household.When the housemate is a tradie who drops F bombs every 2nd word and you have to work from home and get pulled into a conference call with your manager and head of finance… It's awkward.
But yeah, if you have to go to those lengths, it's pretty much a sign.
Nothing about it is being a big baby. As adults we should know and be aware of our surroundings. We don't need to talk so loudly in indoor areas especially around the home when talking normally. There are no rules to this but it's called common sense mate.
I feel you OP, it happens in workplaces too like offices where it's a quiet office environment to work in and people are super loud in the office when they are talking normally, they don't even know how loud they are. It's like them trying to talk having music blasting in their ears with headphones, and they don't realise how loud they are being. Super annoying and these people need to realise how loud they are. I'd say video them in a normal conversation with someone else so they can see that they need to use an indoor voice!
My issue with this thought process is what constitutes as talking loudly indoors? And who decide it?
Basically people need to be reasonable and have realistic expectations when it comes to shared living arrangements. If they don’t they need to focus on managing their expectation and themselves. They need to openly communicate and reach a compromise. Now OP could have an unreasonable loud house mate who is being unrealistic and who isn’t communicating and willing to compromise but based on OP overly passive aggressive attempt of a solution and some of his comments in this thread. I’m going to guess that the housemate isn’t the unreasonable one here.
1yo thread… how'd you find this?!
COMMON SENSE
Get yourself a water pistol.
'Get yourself a water pistol.'
yo ! I like that idea !
Here's my thought - say to shouty housemates - 'hey guys - it hurts my ears when you guys talk unnecessarily loudly in my vicinty. So here's the deal - when you talk too loudly for me, I'll simply squirt you with my water pistol so you get the message'
then run.
OTOH - in our strata complex when a/hole overseas backpackers stand on the balcony after midnight calling home in a different time zone, I tend to call out 'unit XY ! - you are Disturbing the Peace (legal term that can bring police) - please talk inside' (your room - or not common area in your place) - they usually say sorry and go inside - unless they're French and arrogant (I got those evicted)
given you lose against a group - suggest talking quietly to the most friendly individual first, then one by one to obtain a consensus of support for your right to peaceful amenity.
failing all that you could have a right to terminate, get your bond back and move elsewhere - there's some real cheap rents going at the mo' if you have a regular income !
On this topic, anyone know how to set an alarm so that if your room mate sneaks into your room when you are out that you can get notified?
Put a lock on your door.
Yeah my door has a lock but strangely no key… I need to create a temporary key using a paperclip methinks.
Replace the lock, or at least, the innards for the lock. You could put in a spy camera and play the footage back to them showing they were in your room. Tie this in with something that would make a loud noise, to scare them, if they open the door. Tell them if they do it again the footage goes up on You tube.
You could probably look at Smart Bulbs like LIFX that come with camera and if they notify you of motion as well.
Kmart using social distancing online too. Wow, I am inpressed. THey seriously put me in a queue
Expected arrival time on the website: 12:36
Your estimated wait time is: 2 minutesStatus last updated: 12:34:26
Can't have 2 online shoppers pinging into each other now, can we?
Noise cancelling headphones?
find out the music they hate, and use that as the alarm. they'll soon learn
Its called MOVE OUT !
If you choose to house share you chose to put up with people talking - loudly or not. Its thier place as much as yours.
No how about they learn some common courtesy and use an indoor voice, is that non existent these days? are people that unaware and live in their own worlds that nothing else around them exists?
Did you just come back from lining up at Centrelink?
Typical non-essential whinge right there.
I think some people were just born loud..
I think some people do it for attention..
There's this one guy at work, when he laughs the whole floor can hear him and he laughs often, everything seems to be funny to him.
There are lots of rooms, walls, cubicles around this quite big office space floor, but you can always hear him!
Personally, I'd be embarrassed
Exactly!
The perception of loudness defers from person to person but complaining about loudness is purely based on emotions.
Are they loud because you don't like your housemates? This is the first question I would ask myself. And if that's the case, follow the advice above to move out.
I'm sure OP finds their housemates to be fine, that's not the issue they have expressed here, you're trying to insinuate that though.. lame.
It's an issue of common sense and common courtesy. People need to learn that there can be different voices for different things.
If everyone at the footy whispered, you wouldn't hear a crowd and it wouldn't have an impact on the game. If everyone at a library was shouting and screaming and talking loudly, they would get kicked out and be banned.
Living with other people sharing the bills comes with similar moral standards. They need to learn how to have an indoor voice and not be so loud as it may affect those around them and is actually quite annoying as you can't concentrate if you need to (hence why libraries don't allow it!).
The perception of leaving your shit in the toilet and not flushing in a sharehouse may differ from person to person too. The person leaving the shit there to sit and smell may not have any issue with it or even notice it. Yet others they are sharing the house with may. Common sense and moral standards apply in every household with all matters, not what YOU deem to be or not be a matter.
A sharehouse is a democracy. You should note that the OP is one person and has mentioned living with 'people' who speak loud.
Therefore the OP is the person who has the different perception and wants to change their entire household to suit their perception of a perfect household while he disregards his housemates.
To use your toilet analogy. The OP is writing in to say that OP likes to use the toilet and not flush but the people OP lives with finds this disgusting and wants advice on how to turn his housemates into people who do not flush when they use the toilet.
@SnakeCasablanca: mate the guy talks too loud, it's clear cut. Tell him to shut the f up and lower your voice inside you annoying f*#! End of story
Ridiculous statement. Shows you’re most likely inconsiderate of others, or have no idea of your surroundings.
OP I reckon you should address it every time it happens, and include the reason why you need the quiet in the house. A nicely worded text message is good, which keeps a record too. Also, the more immature but tempting option, is to randomly wake them up with whatever noise at whatever time. Just so they get the idea. Some people don’t understand what they’re doing unless it gets done to them, which is sad to say. Good luck!
You could build one with an arduino a mic and a buzzer.
Or you could move out.
Rather than create more noise we use one of these at work:
https://www.amazon.com.au/InnooLight-Rechargeable-Activated-…
Have an impromptu disco whenever someone is too loud
Shout jar …
he who shouts will put a dollar in a jarStart playing classical music at a raised volume. It will usually annoy people into right behaviour. They do it at places where they have anti social behaviour problems.
Run naked out of your room screeching in a high pitched voice every time someone crosses your arbitrary "noise threshold". Alternatively, get some earplugs: https://www.bunnings.com.au/3m-disposable-ear-plugs-80-pairs…
80 pairs …
80 pairs …
The suspense is killing me. Do complete your sentence.
Heh, I meant how many do you want kinda tone. (rhetorical)
What about the dog collars which zaps them when they bark? Just say its a fashionable chocker.
You want an alarm that goes off when your flatmates speak too loud??
Did you ever consider that maybe you are the problem here.
Yes, its time to move I think.
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