Evaluation of acoustical conditions for speech communication in working elementary school classrooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2064-2077

  Sato, Hiroshi ^a   Bradley, John S ^b  

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

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS DESIGN; REVERBERATION TIME; SPEECH SOUNDS; SPEECH TO NOISE RATIO;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; JOB PERFORMANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

ABSORPTION; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SCHOOLS; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 41849146758     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2839283     Document Type: Article

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