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Noise annoyance and its measurement

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Experiments<br />

Experiment I:<br />

part 1: speech intelligibility was measured for eight<br />

environmental noises at seven signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs).<br />

part 2: for these SNR values, the participants assessed the<br />

difficulty in speech comprehension<br />

Experiment II:<br />

the st<strong>and</strong>ard method of noise <strong>annoyance</strong> assessment was used<br />

to the same noises as in Experiment I<br />

Participants<br />

nineteen university students, 8 males <strong>and</strong> 11 females aged<br />

between 20 <strong>and</strong> 25, took part in both psychoacoustic<br />

experiments

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