Prediction of reverberation time and speech transmission index in long enclosures

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3716-3726

  Li, Kai Ming ^a   Man Lam, Pou ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTEGRATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; IMAGE-SOURCE METHOD; REVERSE-TIME INTEGRATION; SOUND PROPAGATION;

REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; SPEECH; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 20444397771     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1904443     Document Type: Article

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