I have just started crunching my first WU's with SETI. I am interested to know if it is possible to hear it on the speaker as it works?

Also, how would I know if my computer has found something of interest?

PS. Thank you for all the hard work put in at SETI over the last two weeks in order to get things moving again, all the best from United Kingdom.

I have just started crunching my first WU's with SETI. I am interested to know if it is possible to hear it on the speaker as it works?

Also, how would I know if my computer has found something of interest?

PS. Thank you for all the hard work put in at SETI over the last two weeks in order to get things moving again, all the best from United Kingdom.

As far as I know no one has bothered with audio for Boinc-Seti. The main reason is that it would be boring and annoying. What we are analyzing in a WU is only a slice of a few seconds of very high frequency electrical noise. You would not hear a signal as such but more like the noise you get when you tune an AM radio between two stations. Just a lot of meaningless (to the ear) hissing noise.

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There is a protocol for telling someone if they found something interesting, but it is still not in place. We are still quite early in the data collecting phase of the project. This is a very long term project (think decade, centuries) with little immediate or direct gratification. Any interesting signal will be flagged for future comparison to signal taken from the same point in space.

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In Classic SETI they had a program to allow you to hear it.

What you hear is white noise / static / tune an AM radio between stations.

There would be no discernible change if there is a signal. You'd be listening to raw digital data, is all.

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I have just started crunching my first WU's with SETI. I am interested to know if it is possible to hear it on the speaker as it works?

Also, how would I know if my computer has found something of interest?

PS. Thank you for all the hard work put in at SETI over the last two weeks in order to get things moving again, all the best from United Kingdom.

As far as I know no one has bothered with audio for Boinc-Seti. The main reason is that it would be boring and annoying. What we are analyzing in a WU is only a slice of a few seconds of very high frequency electrical noise. You would not hear a signal as such but more like the noise you get when you tune an AM radio between two stations. Just a lot of meaningless (to the ear) hissing noise.

Edit
There is a protocol for telling someone if they found something interesting, but it is still not in place. We are still quite early in the data collecting phase of the project. This is a very long term project (think decade, centuries) with little immediate or direct gratification. Any interesting signal will be flagged for future comparison to signal taken from the same point in space.

Thanks for the response.... even though the sound would be meaningless 'white noise' I do think it would be nice idea to have a sound clip available on the SETI@home page to listen to for those interested in the esoteric side of things. Good to hear the protocol to advise us on interesting results is on it's way, I'm looking forward to my first notification!

In Classic SETI they had a program to allow you to hear it.

What you hear is white noise / static / tune an AM radio between stations.

There would be no discernible change if there is a signal. You'd be listening to raw digital data, is all.

Spacesounds.com

Just wanted to thank you for replying to my message. Hope SETI@home consider adding the program as an optional download at some point in the future, but in the mean time I will try tuning an AM radio between stations!

COME ON SETI, if we're going to be crunching for the next hundred years we don't want to be doing it in silence!

COME ON SETI, if we're going to be crunching for the next hundred years we don't want to be doing it in silence!

If I had to listen to that noise all the time, I'd rather have the silence.

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Here's ten seconds of data from the Arecibo telescope and has been converted to sound. The original data is around 1.42 GigaHertz (billion cycles/second), which is way too high to hear. We've extracted a 10 KHz band and shifted it down to the audible 0-10KHz range.

Expect to hear a hissing sound. That's how radio signals from space generally sound. The type of signal SETI@home is searching for would sound like a whistle. It would probably be too faint to hear (although SETI@home could hopefully detect it).


Listen here

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