Influence of classroom acoustics on the voice levels of teachers with and without voice problems: A field study

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pelegrin Garcia, David ^a   Lyberg Ahlander, Viveka ^a   Rydell, Roland ^a   Brunskog, Jonas ^a   Lofqvist, Anders ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; ADAPTATION PROCESS; CLASSROOM ACOUSTICS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; REVERBERATION TIME; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; VOICE PROBLEMS;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; REVERBERATION;

TEACHING;

EID: 79960662150     PISSN: 1939800X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3533839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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