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

• Published in: Noise & vibration in industry Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 194 - 204
• Main Author: Pelegrin-Garcia, D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.06.2013
• Subjects: Acoustic noise; Acoustic properties; Acoustics; Classrooms; Gain; Mathematical models; Noise levels; Voice

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...