Vocal effort with changing talker-to-listener distance in different acoustic environments

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 129; no. 4; p. 1981
• Main Authors: Pelegrín-García, David, Smits, Bertrand, Brunskog, Jonas, Jeong, Cheol-Ho
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.04.2011
• Subjects: Acoustics; Adult; Communication; Environment Design; Feedback; Humans; Male; Models, Biological; Noise; Speech Acoustics; Speech Discrimination Tests; Speech Perception; Voice; Young Adult

Talkers adjust their vocal effort to communicate at different distances, aiming to compensate for the sound propagation losses. The present paper studies the influence of four acoustically different rooms on the speech produced by 13 male talkers addressing a listener at four distances. Talkers rais...