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That requires a mouse with an 8kHz polling rate. With a 1kHz polling rate, this trick will be limited to sounds under 500Hz.
Cool, cool. So what hertz range would you say a woman moaning or a particularly loud fart fall around ? Just out of curiosity...
Human speech is between about 130-300Hz, so even with a lower poling rate it can pick it up. And assuming she sound like a mosquito, it’ll pick things up.
I doubt it, 300Hz is very low. The lowest fidelity frequently band used in telephony is comprised between 300Hz and 3400Hz, specifically excluding everything below 300Hz (voice frequently)
https://www.ico-optics.org/what-hz-is-human-voice/
https://www.voicescience.org/2025/05/lexicon/average-speaking-frequencies/
http://www.1st-acoustics.com/knowledge/frequency-range-for-human-voice.html
In these sources they are talking about the fundamental frequency of human Speech F~0~. Which is one important indicator but I don't think this band is sufficient for comprehension. Record yourself, apply a low-pass filter with cut frequently at 300Hz and check for yourself if this is enough to understand. It might be enough to make out some words, but I doubt it's enough to hear clearly.
Maybe machine learning can infer the missing wave information (like Fourier transforming partial waveforms??
Huh you know from a music perspective I know we can get a lot higher than 500hz but most speech is apparently around 1-300hz.
I only speak in infrasound...
Well now I kind of want to mic up a kick drum with my gaming mouse for fun lol
I wonder if it would sound better taped on, in the drum itself, or on the floor in front. Seems like there would be minimal bleed too haha, might be a cool lo-fi thing
And probably only works when configured to use the the highest DPI settings.