Predictors of speech intelligibility in rooms.
Three different types of acoustical measures were compared as predictors of speech intelligibility in rooms of varied size and acoustical conditions. These included signal-to-noise measures, the speech transmission index derived from modulation transfer functions, and useful/detrimental sound ratios obtained from early/late sound ratios, speech, and background levels. The most successful forms of each type of measure were of similar prediction accuracy, but the useful/detrimental ratios based on a 0.08-s early time interval were most accurate. Several physical measures, although based on very different calculation procedures, were quite strongly related to each other.
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D002980:Climate; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D008834:Microclimate; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility