Noise annoyance and its measurement
Noise annoyance and its measurement
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