Acoustical parameters for learning in classroom: A review

G Minelli, GE Puglisi, A Astolfi - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
A review on the reference values of the acoustical parameters that have the greatest
influence on students' performance at different ages has been completed in this study …

Prediction of speech intelligibility in spatial noise and reverberation for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

R Beutelmann, T Brand - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Binaural speech intelligibility of individual listeners under realistic conditions was predicted
using a model consisting of a gammatone filter bank, an independent equalization …

Effect of noise and reverberation on speech intelligibility for cochlear implant recipients in realistic sound environments

J Badajoz-Davila, JM Buchholz… - The Journal of the …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Previous studies have suggested a strong effect of reverberation on speech intelligibility (SI)
in cochlear implant (CI) recipients. In many of them, different reverberation conditions were …

Effect of room absorption on human vocal output in multitalker situations

L Nijs, K Saher, D den Ouden - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
People increase their vocal output in noisy environments. This is known as the Lombard
effect. The aim of the present study was to measure the effect as a function of the absorption …

Comparison of two types of combined measures, STI and U50, for predicting speech intelligibility in classrooms

C Young-Ji - Archives of Acoustics, 2017 - acoustics.ippt.gov.pl
The present study reports on the speech intelligibility as measured by speech transmission
index (STI) and useful-to-detrimental sound ratios (U50) in university classrooms. Acoustic …

Indoor acoustic quality of educational buildings in South West Europe: Influence of current ventilation strategies

AJ Aguilar, ML de la Hoz-Torres, N Costa… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
The quality of the classroom environment has a great impact on the physical and mental
health of students and teachers. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for new …

Global index of the acoustic quality of classrooms

J Radosz - Archives of Acoustics, 2013 - infona.pl
Acoustic quality of a classroom is a term proposed to describe acoustic properties that
contribute to a subjective impression received by a human, such as speech intelligibility …

An investigation of acoustical environments in the elderly care facilities

J Peng, Y Zeng, L Zhao, J Zeng - Applied Acoustics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract 62 rooms including living rooms, common rooms and dining rooms in 11 elderly
care facilities had been measured, and some objective acoustical parameters in these …

A dissociation between speech understanding and perceived reverberation

GM Ellis, P Zahorik - Hearing Research, 2019 - Elsevier
As direct-to-reverberant energy ratio (DRR) decreases or decay time increases, speech
intelligibility tends to decrease for both normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners …

Optimum reverberation for speech intelligibility for normal and hearing-impaired listeners in realistic classrooms using auralization

W Yang, M Hodgson - Building Acoustics, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The objective of this study was to use auralization techniques to investigate the optimal
reverberation for speech intelligibility for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired adult …