Abstract
An estimate of the correlation between the sound pressure level and the loudness of speech is proposed. Speech-noise elicits the same loudness as a test-sentence, if the noise level corresponds to the maximum value of the fluctuating speech level. For the level measurements, A-weighting and ″slow″ meter damping is preferable. In order to halve the loudness of speech of speech-noise, the level has to be decreased in both cases by almost 7 dB.
| Translated title of the contribution | Sound Level and Speech Audibility. |
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| Original language | English |
| Pages (from-to) | 341-345 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Acustica |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| State | Published - 1976 |