Ceiling baffles and reflectors for controlling lecture-room sound for speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3517-3526

  Yang, Wonyoung ^a   Hodgson, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; REVERBERATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SURFACE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC ABSORPTION;

SOUND ABSORPTION; SPEECH SIGNALS;

MIRRORS;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEASUREMENT; NOISE INJURY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; HEARING; HUMANS; NOISE; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 34249881053     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2730623     Document Type: Article

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