The influence of speech intelligibility on performance and acoustic comfort in offices

39th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2010, INTER-NOISE 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 798-802

  Liebl, Andreas ^a   Drotleff, Horst ^a   Wack, Roman ^a   Leistner, Michael ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BUILDING PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic comfort; Office noise; Performance; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COMFORT; ACOUSTIC DESIGN; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; CONDUCTING PERFORMANCE; OFFICE NOISE; OPEN-PLAN OFFICES; PERFORMANCE; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX;

OFFICE BUILDINGS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84868655884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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