Masking of Speech by Noise at High Sound Levels
- 1 February 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 30 (2) , 127-130
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1909503
Abstract
Speech intelligibility was examined at high noise levels for a range of speech and noise spectra. Over a wide range of conditions, deterioration of speech intelligibility was observed with a constant speech-to-noise (S/N) ratio at high noise levels. Little change in intelligibility was observed for over-all speech levels to 130 db in the absence of background noise. Control tests ruled out distortion within the equipment as the factor associated with the loss of speech intelligibility.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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