Measurement and prediction of voice support and room gain in school classrooms

Objective acoustic parameters have been measured in 30 school classrooms. These parameters include usual descriptors of the acoustic quality from the listeners' standpoint, such as reverberation time, speech transmission index, and background noise level, and two descriptors of the acoustic pro...

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Published inNoise & vibration in industry Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 194 - 204
Main Author Pelegrin-Garcia, D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.06.2013
Subjects
Acoustic noise
Acoustic properties
Acoustics
Classrooms
Gain
Mathematical models
Noise levels
Voice
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Summary:Objective acoustic parameters have been measured in 30 school classrooms. These parameters include usual descriptors of the acoustic quality from the listeners' standpoint, such as reverberation time, speech transmission index, and background noise level, and two descriptors of the acoustic properties for a speaker: Voice support and room gain. This paper describes the measurement method for these two parameters and presents a prediction model for voice support and room gain derived from the diffuse field theory. The voice support for medium-sized classrooms with volumes between 100 and 250 m super(3) and good acoustical quality lies in the range between - 14 and -9 dB, whereas the room gain is in the range between 0.2 and 0.5 dB. The prediction model for voice support describes the measurements in the classrooms with a coefficient of determination of 0.84 and a standard deviation of 1.2 dB.
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ISSN:0950-8163