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Maria Silvestri
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Not total silence, but... Aug 6, 2020

I live on a busy road, and I find that the white noise from the traffic is usually a good accompaniment to my work.

Everything else is too distracting, though if I'm doing something extremely repetitive and boring, I may put a sitcom I've watched a thousand times on in the background - but not usually.


Dan Lucas
 
IrinaN
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Stomach growling Aug 6, 2020

As soon as it presents itself, it's time to stop interacting with the computer and switch to the fridge.

I really thought that years ago I was just kidding, maybe not so successfully:

https://www.proz.com/forum/off_topic/88430-poll_subjects_we_have_been_missing_so_far.html


 
Elizabeth Tamblin
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Nothing Aug 6, 2020

If the text is interesting, I don't need any additional entertainment. If the text is not interesting, anything I listen to is likely to distract me from the task in hand.

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Muriel Vasconcellos
Tom in London
Dan Lucas
 
Maxi Schwarz
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no music at all Aug 7, 2020

(Wasn't this asked before?)

Muriel Vasconcellos
Tom in London
Dan Lucas
 
Ventnai
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Music most of the time Aug 7, 2020

Music with lyrics doesn't worry me while I'm translating but I need instrumental music at a low speed and volume for proofreading

 
Ventnai
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It's only conversation Aug 7, 2020

Tom in London wrote:

When working, I'm more productive if I'm listening to complete silence. I shall now await a long, pointless series of posts telling us all what kind of music they listen to.



[Edited at 2020-08-06 12:45 GMT]


It's only conversation. Don't read if you don't want to.


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Tom in London
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Good- Aug 7, 2020

Good- that seems to have killed what could have been an endlessly boring "discussion".

 
B D Finch
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Silence if I could Aug 7, 2020

I prefer silence, but as I suffer from tinnitus, silence is rarely available. As I use dictation software when translating, music would probably cause errors as well as it being really annoying to dictate over music. If music is worth listening to it shouldn't be used as muzak, and if it isn't worth listening to then silence is better. Concentrating on translation and the sound of my own voice dictating tend to both blot out most of the tinnitus.

I live near a fast-flowing river so,
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I prefer silence, but as I suffer from tinnitus, silence is rarely available. As I use dictation software when translating, music would probably cause errors as well as it being really annoying to dictate over music. If music is worth listening to it shouldn't be used as muzak, and if it isn't worth listening to then silence is better. Concentrating on translation and the sound of my own voice dictating tend to both blot out most of the tinnitus.

I live near a fast-flowing river so, when the weather allows me to work with the windows open and especially after heavy rain, the sound of the river is a pleasant and unobtrusive background noise. Bird song is good as well. As the windows are all closed now to keep the heat out, the sound of my fan is quite soothing.
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Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
 
Felipe Tomasi
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Instrumental music Aug 17, 2020

I enjoy listening to Mozart and Vivaldi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnCCH3NcwiY


DZiW (X)
 
Aline Amorim
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Instrumental music and Flashback Aug 17, 2020

I enjoy listening to Instrumental music and Flashback to relax a bit.

 
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