Measures for assessing architectural speech security (privacy) of closed offices and meeting rooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3480-3490

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

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ARTICULATION INDEXES; CADENCE; SPEECH INTELLIGBILITY INDEXES; SPEECH SECURITY;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ARCHITECTURE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NOISE; PHONETICS; PRIVACY; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SECURITY MEASURES; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

EID: 7044230904     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1810300     Document Type: Article

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