Acoustical conditions in the classroom I - Speech intelligibility and recall of spoken material heard at different signal- To-noise ratios

42nd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2013, INTER-NOISE 2013: Noise Control for Quality of Life

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 4957-4964

  Hygge, Staffan ^a   Ljung, Robert ^a   Israelsson, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

DISRUPTIVE EFFECTS; PHONETICALLY BALANCED; S/N RATIO; SPOKEN WORDS; WORD LISTS; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84904489307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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