Using listening difficulty ratings of conditions for speech communication in rooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1157-1167

  Sato, Hiroshi ^a,c   Bradley, John S ^a   Morimoto, Masayuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; BUILDINGS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LISTENING DIFFICULTY; LISTENING TESTS; WORD INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION SCORES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENERGY; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 14844355095     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1849936     Document Type: Article

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