Evaluating airborne sound insulation in terms of speech intelligibility

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1458-1471

  Park, H K ^a   Bradley, J S ^a   Gover, B N ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARTICULATION INDEX; SOUND TRANSMISSION CLASS (STC);

SOUND INSULATION;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ARTICULATION CLASS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; SOUND INSULATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SOUND TRANSMISSION CLASS RATING; SPACE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WEIGHTED SOUND REDUCTION INDEX RATING;

AIR; HUMANS; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 40749137276     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2831736     Document Type: Article

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