Effects of room acoustics on the intelligibility of speech in classrooms for young children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 922-933

  Yang, W ^a   Bradley, J S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTOR; EARLY-TO-LATE; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; INTELLIGIBILITY SCORES; NOISE LEVELS; REVERBERATION TIME; ROOM ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SPEECH SOUNDS; SPEECH TESTS; YOUNG CHILDREN;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CHILD; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SCHOOLS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 59849110866     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3058900     Document Type: Article

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