Speech levels in meeting rooms and the probability of speech privacy problems

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 815-822

  Bradley, J S ^a   Gover, B N ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; ROOM SIZE; SOUND AMPLIFICATION; SPEECH PRIVACY; STATISTICAL VARIATIONS;

AMPLIFICATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

SOUND INSULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; NOISE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ALGORITHMS; ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NOISE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 76349113350     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3277220     Document Type: Article

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