Some spatial and temporal effects on the speech privacy of meeting rooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3038-3051

  Bradley, John S ^a   Apfel, Marina ^a   Gover, Bradford N ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE NOISE; FIELD CONDITIONS; NOISE SOURCES; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCES; SEPARATE EFFECTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SOUND FIELDS; SPEECH PRIVACIES; SPEECH SOUNDS; TEMPORAL EFFECTS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOUND INSULATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; NOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65549118814     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3097771     Document Type: Article

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