Measurement and prediction of typical speech and background-noise levels in university classrooms during lectures

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 226-233

  Hodgson, Murray ^a   Rempel, Rod ^a   Kennedy, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; UNIVERSITY;

EID: 0032919059     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424600     Document Type: Article

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