Is snoring volume measured in decibels
I looked into whether snoring volume shows up in decibels. Nagi has no such number. On the night of September 19 it was loud for 10 minutes, peaking at 10:19. I only write what this one record can say.
Wanting to know my snoring's volume in decibels
I have looked things up before, wanting to know how loud my own snoring is in decibels. I felt that a clear number, "so many dB," would settle right away whether it was actually loud.
Looking into it, measuring volume in decibels needs either dedicated equipment or an app that keeps analyzing sound the whole time. Nagi, the app I use every night, has no feature that shows that night's sound in decibels.
What Nagi's recording shows instead is the length of the loud stretch, and when inside it the single loudest moment happened. It is a different kind of record from a decibel number.
This article only writes what was left on the morning screen after recording on the night of September 19. Without a decibel number, I write plainly what I can and cannot tell.
I still think a single clear number would make it easier to explain to someone whether it was loud. Even so, what I have this time is only a record of length and time, so I write only within that range.
What was left on the screen from the night of September 19
On the night of September 19 I recorded for 9 hours and 17 minutes. The phone stayed by my pillow from 01:12 to 10:30.
What was left on the morning screen: loud sound for 10 minutes, peaking at 10:19. How I felt on waking was "ordinary."
Nowhere on the screen is there a decibel number. What is shown is only the length of the loud stretch and the time of the single loudest moment.
The single loudest moment can be played back in my own ears from the app's screen. I do not know how many decibels it was, but exactly when it happened was clearly kept.
The past 14 nights of records sit on the same screen, so I can compare whether today's 10 minutes were more or less than usual.
A short tag can also be added afterward, based on how that night felt. I did not add one this time, but adding or not adding a tag does not change the loud minutes or the peak.
Recording and your record are free, always. The sound is sent nowhere. Only the loud stretches are kept.
What is kept instead of decibels
What I actually did was put the phone by my pillow and tap once before sleeping. Screen down, in the usual spot. No sound-analysis equipment or separate app was used.
Recording keeps going after the screen goes dark, and I end it with a long press in the morning. Through the night, the phone itself did not appear to be doing anything unusual.
In place of a mechanism that outputs decibels, the morning screen lays out the loud minutes and the peak time the same way every time. There is nothing to set or calculate.
Sound recorded closer picks up louder, so I keep the spot the same every night: not on the pillow itself, on the small table right beside it.
Being asked for microphone permission only happened once. I have not done anything special about the battery either; just charging it before bed as usual has been enough, and recording has never stopped partway through the night.
What stays, and what does not
Where the sound goes is explained the same way every time, in one sentence: "The sound is sent nowhere. Only the loud stretches are kept." On the night of September 19 as well, the whole 9 hours and 17 minutes of sound was not kept as it is; only the loud 10 minutes and the short stretch right around it stayed on the phone.
The recording stays on this phone for 14 nights and the oldest is cleared automatically; there is nothing to delete by hand. Even after the sound itself is gone, the numbers, the loud minutes and the peak, stay behind.
Recording and keeping the record have always been free. In place of a decibel number, what remains is a record I can listen back to myself.
What Nagi can do is record the night's loud minutes and peak, and let me listen back to them in the morning. It does not judge.
What I know for now
What I learned this time is only that my own night of September 19 was loud for 10 minutes. How many decibels that was, I still do not know.
Without a decibel number, the length of the loud stretch and when it happened were both clearly kept on the morning screen. Listening back myself, I could also check what kind of sound it was.
Being able to compare with a single number would probably be simpler. Still, what I learned this time is only the length of the sound that night, and when it happened.
I do not think this explains why I have been told it was loud. What I learned is only the length of the sound on the night of September 19, and when it happened.
I started out wanting to know the decibels, but what I have on hand for now is only the loud minutes and the peak. Being able to check, only after morning, the night sound I cannot hear myself: that is what I learned this time.
For anything about treatment or making it stop, a doctor is the surest person to ask. All Nagi can do is record the night's sound so you can hear back, in the morning, how long it was loud and when it peaked. No verdicts, only the record.