Voices Without Distractions

In open spaces, conversations can be the hardest sounds to ignore. Our brains are wired to pick up on speech — especially when it’s clear enough to understand. That’s why a few words from a distant phone call can suddenly pull your focus away from your work. A simple and effective solution is to mask these voices with other sounds. Natural ambiences like Rain works beautifully, but for speech specifically, nothing works better than a well-crafted chatter noise.

Chatter noise is also used to protect speech privacy — for example, between adjacent offices or meeting rooms. Even when walls look solid, they often fail acoustically. A discreet layer of human-sounding noise restores privacy by blending voices into the background. Compared to White Noise, chatter noise is much more efficient at masking speech, allowing you to keep the volume low while maintaining the same level of confidentiality.

Blending In, Not Fighting Back

When a masking sound differs too much from the sound you want to hide, it must be played louder to be effective — which quickly becomes uncomfortable. A better strategy is to work *with* the noise, not against it. In this case, that means using one chatter to mask another.

Our chatter noise was designed from scratch using re-synthesis: it keeps the organic feel of human voices but removes any intelligible words. The result is a pleasant blur of sound that feels social but never distracting. Because it shares the same acoustic characteristics as real conversations, it hides them more efficiently — and at lower volumes — than any artificial white or pink noise could.

Try listening for a few minutes. You’ll notice how your brain quickly stops paying attention to it. Soon, both the chatter and the unwanted voices around you will fade away — leaving you in a calm, focused silence that feels surprisingly alive. You may try the different spatial width settings to find the one that blends most naturally into your environment.

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