Sound pressure level of running speech: Percentile level statistics and equivalent continuous sound level

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 170-181

  Corthals, Paul ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Equivalent continuous sound level; Running speech; Sound pressure level; Speech intensity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNX DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SCREENING; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 1842728717     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076939     Document Type: Article

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