Reverberation time and maximum background-noise level for classrooms from a comparative study of speech intelligibility metrics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 861-875

  Bistafa, Sylvio R ^a,b   Bradley, John S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033951034     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428268     Document Type: Article

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