Hearing Health Foundation is excited to partner with SoundPrint, the hearing health app, to engage our community to promote hearing health awareness.
The contributions from the Find Your Quiet Place Challenge will enable SoundPrint to advocate for safe noise levels, help you and your community find quieter places, and protect the public’s hearing health.
It’s fun, easy, and prizes will be awarded! Be sure to join us!
The Details
This October, our community will participate in the SoundPrint FYQP Challenge to promote our shared mission of hearing health awareness.
We will use the SoundPrint app to measure sound levels all month at a variety of venues (restaurants, parks, shops, offices, cafes).
Using the SoundPrint app is simple. Once downloaded, your smartphone turns into a decibel meter allowing you to take sound measurements everywhere you go and submit them to the app’s database for the public to see.
SoundPrint will share the anonymized data with hearing health organizations and advocates, including the World Health Organization and the press, and put venue managers on notice that the public wants quieter places to ensure the hearing health of patrons and employees.
To get started, download the app, and to be eligible for prizes, register with your email on the app. The more sound measurements submitted on the SoundPrint, the greater the advocacy for safe noise levels.
As someone with hearing loss, Gregory Scott is sensitive to loud venues and have often struggled to hear companions in noisy bars and restaurants. His search for quiet spots in New York City let him to create the SoundPrint, app which now covers many cities in the U.S.
Visit this webpage for all the details on the Challenge.
Questions? Please email SoundPrint at challenge@soundprint.co or visit SoundPrint’s website.
SoundPrint allows you to discover the quieter venues in your city. Using the app’s internal decibel meter, you can measure the actual noise level of any venue, which is then submitted to a SoundPrint database that anyone can access to find out if a certain venue is quiet or loud.
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