An acoustical environment survey was carried out in six similar air
conditioned landscaped offices in which human speech was considered
to be the major source of complaint. Both questionnaire and physical
noise measurement were administrated. Physical noise measurement
data reveal higher sound energy within the human speech frequency
range and high speech intelligibility level in the offices. Results
also show that the preferred noise criterion gives good correlation
with the auditory sensation comments of the office workers. The noise
climate, the equivalent sound pressure level and the noise pollution
level are also found to be useful in assessing the acoustical environment
inside the surveyed offices.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Tang1998
%A Tang, S.K.
%A Wong, C.T.
%D 1998
%J Applied Acoustics
%K Noise indices; survey
%P 293-305
%T Performance of noise indices in office environment dominated by noise
from human speech
%V 55
%X An acoustical environment survey was carried out in six similar air
conditioned landscaped offices in which human speech was considered
to be the major source of complaint. Both questionnaire and physical
noise measurement were administrated. Physical noise measurement
data reveal higher sound energy within the human speech frequency
range and high speech intelligibility level in the offices. Results
also show that the preferred noise criterion gives good correlation
with the auditory sensation comments of the office workers. The noise
climate, the equivalent sound pressure level and the noise pollution
level are also found to be useful in assessing the acoustical environment
inside the surveyed offices.
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abstract = {An acoustical environment survey was carried out in six similar air
conditioned landscaped offices in which human speech was considered
to be the major source of complaint. Both questionnaire and physical
noise measurement were administrated. Physical noise measurement
data reveal higher sound energy within the human speech frequency
range and high speech intelligibility level in the offices. Results
also show that the preferred noise criterion gives good correlation
with the auditory sensation comments of the office workers. The noise
climate, the equivalent sound pressure level and the noise pollution
level are also found to be useful in assessing the acoustical environment
inside the surveyed offices.},
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journal = {Applied Acoustics},
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timestamp = {2012-01-27T14:11:14.000+0100},
title = {Performance of noise indices in office environment dominated by noise
from human speech},
volume = 55,
year = 1998
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