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With the Cause sound app you can measure the noise in your environment and make it tangible. If you experience certain sound problems, you can make this visible with the app.

With the Cause Sound app you have three different options for measuring:

1. Decibel values ​​– you can measure how loud the sound is around you. This value is adapted to human hearing. You hear the lowest and highest tones less well. This gives you a realistic picture.

2. Spectrum – with this option you give more dimension to sound than just a decibel value. You can see which frequencies are present in the sound. For example, mainly low sounds or more mid or high sounds.

3. Spectrogram – allows you to see what is happening over time and what frequencies are present. Especially useful when a certain sound only occurs occasionally.

About the Cause:

De Cause, an initiative of the University of Antwerp, UZA and De Morgen, is the largest citizen research into environmental noise in Flanders. What sounds do we hear every day, where are they loudest and what does that do to our health? To find out, we're calling on the help of thousands of citizen scientists. Participate in De Cause and help put the ambient noise in your neighborhood on the map!