The intelligibility of speech in elementary school classrooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2078-2086

  Bradley, J S ^a   Sato, H ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STUDENTS;

NEAR IDEAL ACOUSTICAL CONDITIONS; NOISE LEVELS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY TESTS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY TEST; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; AGE FACTORS; ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; CHILD; HUMANS; NOISE; SCHOOLS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 41849127819     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2839285     Document Type: Article

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