Effect of noise and occupancy on optimal reverberation times for speech intelligibility in classrooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 931-939

  Hodgson, Murray ^a   Nosal, Eva Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

OPTIMAL REVERBERATION;

REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STEADY STATE; THEORY; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036163782     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1428264     Document Type: Article

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