A white noise generator is ideal for masking noises produced by a sleeping partner e.g. snoring, masking traffic sounds, construction or loud neighbours. They're also ideal for sleep, study and relaxing, masking internal noises from tinnitus (white noise is essentially the only solution for internal noise), masking conversation for speech privacy e.g. in executive offices or doctors' waiting rooms, soothing babies to sleep- teaching them to go to sleep independently- and soothing children to sleep in unfamiliar places when traveling.