Being listened to and truly listening to someone else is a gift. It's rare that I truly feel listened to and understood, so I have started to wonder if I overexplain and if that is why sometimes people tune me out.
I don't think the media have to 'shout' because we have become desensitised, I think we have become desensitised because of the constant sensationalisation by the media. Everything has to be a drama, the weather is 'too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too moderate', everything has to be followed by an exclamation mark, (or two). Generally though, I've found your talks fascinating.
Just had to throw this out there. The closed captions have a break () visible. It was incredibly distracting. I'd suggest editing them and removing the visible coding.
I wondered not that it was bad but that that there was a distinct purpose for that background noise... As the pink sound he mentions. I heard it only after stopping to dissect the sounds in the video that I was perceiving. But it is ironic lol yes.
2:45 People tend to use the cocktail effect to their own emotional, isolated advantage... especially at bars. 'Oh Bob can't hear me' is only a likelihood. In 2009 I went to my Chemistry lecture at Virginia Tech by long-boarding the 5 minute journey there down some hills... getting my adrenaline levels very high. About 15 or so seconds after I popped the tail of my board to carry it via hand I was walking through the lobby- which was full of conversations- and I heard someone say to his friend (on the other side of the lobby) "I wonder if people just carry skateboards around to look cool". Ye, this was and still is the most superhuman sound perception I have possessed and demonstrated... Cocktail party filtering across the room and discerning sentences which may or may not be about me. But the icing on the cake was me turning a sharp 130/140 degrees or so back over my shoulder and making eye contact with the kid. I hope I freaked him out.
6:12 I gotta disagree with that... When watching and listening to those sound clips, it reminds me of a poorly lipped MXC (Most Extreme Challenge) tv show. I can't always read lips, but I bet I (and other people) might not have that cross-sense skewing. Maybe if he had his mouth come a little bit closer to closed, then the phonetic mechanics might be able to be passed off on a visual basis as being something else- but he's got like a full inch gap in his lips. Come on meow.
Probably too late but I'll do it anyways. In my study of phonetics we got taught that this effect actually doesn't work all the time and it doesnt work for everyone the same way. It is, however, true that what we see when speaking affects us. Seeing someone speak and moving their lips triggers certain areas in your brain that are responsible for speaking yourself. It's really cool stuff i have to say
Pink noise has DEFINITELY NOT a flat spectrum. Julian Treasure clearly isn't an acoustician. So now I doubt everything else he mentioned. We're dealing with a charlatan here... Beware. Another thing: if I were him I'd take down this video. It's embarrassing claiming to be a sound expert in a video with TERRIBLE AUDIO. There's humm on the mic...
