Android decibel meter

android android-sensors decibel
JustCurious picture JustCurious · Nov 27, 2011 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

I want to create an app that would be able to use the phone's microphone in order to get the outside noise volume in db. What is the easiest way to do it?

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joecks picture joecks · Nov 27, 2011

Check out one of the two projects on code.google.com:

http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Audalyzer

http://code.google.com/p/splmeter/

where as the last projects used this formular for calculating the sound pressure value:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure

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