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Effect of ambient noise on the vocal output and the preferred listening level of conversational speech

✍ Scribed by E. van Heusden; R. Plomp; L.C.W. Pols

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1979
Tongue: English
Weight: 667 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 0003-682X
DOI: 10.1016/0003-682x(79)90037-9

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✦ Synopsis

The effect of ambient noise on vocal output and the preferred listening level of conversational speech was investigated under conditions typical of everyday speech communication. For a speaker-listener distance of i m, vocal output and the preferred listening level in quiet were both about 50 dB( A ). Deviations from this value were observed when the noise level exceeded a level of about 40 dB( A ). The regression lines for the data points above this level showed a 3 dB rise for a lO dB rise in noise level. The experiments further suggest that both speaker and listener (when the latter is able to control the playback level of recorded speech) try to compensate for the noise interference by raising the level of speech in order to keep the (subjective) loudness of speech in noise equal to the loudness of speech in quiet.

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