Aug 28, 2024 07:00:00

'Play a sound' allows you to test how many Hz your ears can hear.

The human

hearing range is said to be roughly 20Hz to 20,000Hz, and it is known that it generally becomes harder to hear high-pitched sounds as we age. On the website ' Play Sounds ,' you can play several sounds and test how high your ears can hear.

Play a sound
https://okumuralab.org/~okumura/javascript/sound.html

'Play sound' looks like this. There are buttons for 1000Hz, 4000Hz, 8000Hz, and 10,000Hz to 24,000Hz in 1000Hz increments. Pressing a button will play the corresponding frequency.

You can clearly hear frequencies around 8,000 Hz and 10,000 Hz, but for some people, it may become difficult to hear frequencies around 15,000 to 6,000 Hz. Even if you can't hear it, the sound itself is still playing, so please refrain from turning up the volume too much.

Please note that the speakers of the device you are using to watch may not be able to handle high frequency sounds.

According to the creator, Haruhiko Okumura, the sound is produced using JavaScript, and most of the source code was written using ChatGPT 4o.

Panasonic and other companies also have similar websites.

Hearing Check

https://panasonic.jp/hochouki/download/dagehg/hearing2.html

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