| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Speech levels in meeting rooms and the probability of speech privacy problems (PDF, 787 KiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3277220 |
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| Author | Search for: Bradley, J. S.1; Search for: Gover, B. N.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Subject | Speech levels, speech privacy, speech security, criteria for speech privacy; Office acoustics; Speech security |
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| Abstract | Speech levels were measured in a large number of meetings and meeting rooms to better understand their influence on the speech privacy of closed meeting rooms. The effects of room size and number of occupants on average speech levels, for meetings with and without sound amplification, were investigated. The characteristics of the statistical variations of speech levels were determined in terms of speech levels measured over 10 s intervals at locations inside, but near the periphery of the meeting rooms. A procedurefor predicting the probability of speech being audible or intelligible at points outside meeting rooms is proposed. It is based on the statistics of meeting room speech levels, in combination with the sound insulation characteristics of the room and the ambient noise levels at locations outside the room. |
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| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NRC number | NRCC 54471
NRC-IRC-21731 |
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| NPARC number | 20373937 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | 51b0684e-a531-4754-bab6-9fbc08a54247 |
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| Record created | 2012-07-23 |
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| Record modified | 2020-04-17 |
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