How does soundmasking work?
In open plan areas soundmasking works to increase speech privacy by slightly raising the building’s background sound level so that it becomes more difficult to overhear and understand conversations. By properly and evenly raising the background sound of the environment, the acoustical dynamics of the space are compressed, thus minimizing the acoustical peaks that occur off in the distance (i.e. background conversation, office equipment, noise from building systems, exterior noise, etc…). Properly designed and installed, soundmasking is custom tailored to the unique characteristics of a space and tuned to compliment a space’s unique acoustics. Soundmasking reduces conversational distraction in order to increase concentration, productivity, and accuracy. In private offices soundmasking increases speech privacy to retain the confidentiality of conversations. This is the main concern in Audio Security.
