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Avoid disturbing neighbors/roommates ... is a pillow fort effective?
Does anyone have a good idea on how to reduce the noise I am producing when speaking in my room, so to avoid disturbing my neighbors me. (Without I have to speak lower than usual; i.e. whisper).

I was thinking a pillow fort might be a good idea, do you think it would be effective?
Any alternative ideas perhaps?


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Mass & air gapping prevents sound transmission.

A speaking voice doesn't take much sound insulation to stop it leaking into the next room, but if you live in a building where the walls & doors are so light that you can hear someone speaking normally from the next room with the doors shut, then there's little a bunch of pillows is going to do to help.

As you're starting from such a high-transmission structure I don't think anything short of 4" of heavy rockwool inside another plaster-board [drywall] layer is really going to help much.

For economy of effort … just go outdoors.

BTW, you can easily test how much a pillow will stop sound by getting someone to speak right in front of you, with & without a pillow over their mouth. Muffled, yes - because it will remove the highest frequencies - but any less actual volume… no.


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