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Silenz — Mix ambient noise in with the music you're listening to
Silenz monitors the sounds of your surrounding in a smart way; once it detects a significant sound (e.g. human speech), it reacts by pausing or adjusting the volume of media players.
The app also allows you to hear surrounding sounds mixed with your music.
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Charles Magnuson
I sure wish there was a demo version available for download. $15.00 is quite a steep price for a little utility app like this.
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@magnuson Your wish is granted. From now on, Silenz is FREE to download for a limited time!
Now you can try out Silenz for free for 7 days on Setapp: https://go.setapp.com/stp250?ref...
@_grow_ I was willing to work on a similar product but more focused on hearing protection.
When some people are talking I may be tempted to increase the volume to stay focused, then I may be listening to high volume for a long time.
The idea would be to have a software automatically decreasing the volume to force me to listen to music at the lowest volume possible and keep my ears safe.
I wish there were a freemium version of Silenz.
In the description it says that Spotify is available as in-app purchase, do you have to pay again after the $15, and if yes how much ?
Thanks!
@qdelaoutre Hi Quentin!
To reduce the price of the app I've decided to make extensions available as IAPs ($1.99). There is also All-In Media Control Bundle IAP which includes all current and future media control extensions ($4.99).
The problem with freemium is that demos and trials are not possible in the Mac App Store without the subscription model.
Hi everyone!
I would like to introduce you to Silenz - my indie Mac app dedicated to headphones users.
It's a media controller and audio analyser which can react to the human voice and control iTunes or other media apps (Spotify, Deezer, VOX, VLC).
I made the app for myself to reduce mundane activities like pausing, turning the volume down and removing the headphones when someone is speaking to me.
It can also amplify and mix surrounding sounds with your music. And it does all of this automatically, using advanced audio analysis.
I'll be happy to answer any questions about the app.
@paulsolt Hi Paul, without getting too much into the details, Silenz computes and analyzes several audio features obtained both from time and frequency domains. To do that it uses FFT and wavelets. Analyzed features are mostly characteristics of a human voice. All of it allows Silenz to discard for example keystrokes, mouse clicks or the sound of a mug put on the desk :)
This sounds like something I might use but I'm not entirely sure how it works or whether it would work with Shush, for example. I'd love to have a time-limited (say, 30mins) trial version to give it a go
Hello guys, good job. I have one problem however in Smart mode - looks like app is silencing background about every 30 seconds with no real reason and in this period it's not passing through any outside noises. I experimented a bit with threshold but in this periods it's not noticing any sounds. Tested on macbook pro 2017. Otherwise very promising :)
@adrian_nowak Hi Adrian! Could you please provide more details via https://silenzapp.com/contact ? I would be more than happy to investigate this :)
Hi. I am just confuse what this app do? I think I understand you set the threshold so you can allow or nor human voices come through? But if you use a noise cancelling headphones will this still work?
@ricardo_urroz1 Yes, it will, Silenz uses an available microphone and is independent of noise cancelling technology.
Interesting idea. It reminds me if Here One headphones which essentially do the same thing but they discontinued the product. This looks like a cheaper option but I hope it eventually available on mobile. I’m a prep cook and would love to be able to listen to my own music while being aware of what’s happening in the kitchen. Can’t exactly plug my headphones into a laptop then but I would definitely use this to study with while at my computer.
