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SoundPrint holds crowdsourced sound-level measurements of restaurants, bars, cafés and other venues in 150+ countries — the only dataset of its kind built from inside the venues, at the times people actually visit. We make select data available to researchers, public-health agencies and journalists.

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What's Available

  • Venue-level average sound levels and sound level category
  • Time-of-day breakdowns
  • By venue type, city or country
  • Subjective ratings alongside measured levels
  • Custom requests considered — tell us what you need

Email research@soundprint.co with what you're studying, and the cut of data you need.

What the Data Has Shown

Published findings from SoundPrint measurements.

Peer-Reviewed Study · New York City

The first large-scale survey of how loud a city's restaurants and bars really are

2,376 New York City restaurants and bars, measured with the SoundPrint app and broken down by neighborhood, venue type and cuisine — the largest study of its kind ever published. It found that most venues were too loud for conversation and many were loud enough to endanger the hearing of patrons and staff. On the Lower East Side, not a single restaurant measured Quiet. And the noise levels venues reported on their own Yelp pages were wrong most of the time.

2,376 venues measured
71% of restaurants Loud or Very Loud
90% of bars Loud or Very Loud
Read the Paper →
Survey With the American Tinnitus Association

How the tinnitus and hearing loss communities feel about noisy venues

Attitudes toward patronizing loud public places, from a survey run with the ATA.

Read the Findings →

Listening to the Data

Short analyses SoundPrint publishes from its own measurements.

Sound levels at Starbucks vs. other coffee chains PDF →
Quietest and loudest restaurant chains →
Optimizing conversation sound levels for venues →
Find Your Quiet Place data findings →

Who We Work With

We collaborate with noise-pollution advocates, local agencies, speech and hearing organizations, public-health groups and university departments — audiology, communication sciences, geospatial sciences, environmental public health, acoustic and architectural engineering.

Interested in collecting, analyzing or writing with SoundPrint data? Email research@soundprint.co . Journalists: see Press .

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