Measurement and prediction of speech and noise levels and the Lombard effect in eating establishments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2023-2033

  Hodgson, Murray ^a   Steininger, Gavin ^a   Razavi, Zohreh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CLASSICAL ROOM-ACOUSTICAL THEORY; LOMBARD EFFECT; NOISE LEVELS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

HUMANS; NOISE; RESTAURANTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34047262995     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2535571     Document Type: Article

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