Research-informed spatial sound, generated in real time
dpli is a research-informed sound engine that creates living, spatial backgrounds for focus, calm and intentional rest — directly on your device.
Headphones recommended. Start at a comfortable volume.
The dpli approach
dpli starts with established findings in auditory attention, psychoacoustics and spatial hearing — not with a playlist or a fashionable neuroscience label. Those findings shape what each background should make less prominent, how it should feel over time and where the product promise must stop.
The result is a living, spatial environment created on the listener’s device. The engine stays invisible: choose the state, press play and let the background do its work.
How evidence becomes a productPowered by dpli
The same foundation becomes a different experience when the moment changes.
Spatial sound environments for writing, coding, studying and any task that needs fewer interruptions.
A simple ten-minute sound ritual for decompressing after noise, screens, meetings or an overstimulating day.
What the engine is designed to do
Make nearby speech, office activity and sudden changes feel less prominent against a deliberate background.
The environment evolves as it plays rather than asking the brain to hear the same short recording again.
Sound is treated as an environment around the listener, not only a flat layer between the ears.
Support the conditions around focus and rest without pretending to be treatment or active noise cancellation.
How dpli separates established findings, careful interpretation and product claims — and why restraint is part of being genuinely research-informed.
Read the noteFrom the journal
The Yerkes–Dodson law explains why both underload and overload can make demanding work harder.
How rapid auditory memory can turn a passive loop into a recognizable pattern competing for attention.
The research on masking, auditory attention and reducing the contrast of distracting events.
Private by design
dpli generates sound locally. The apps do not need an account, stream your audio or collect a history of how you listen.
Choose your moment
Make space for the next stretch of work — or for ten quiet minutes away from it.
