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Natural Speech Intelligibility in Theatres in Relation to Their Acoustics
There is a certain tendency in the design of theatres to make the halls quite large. From a perspective of natural speech intelligibility and strength of speech this is disadvantageous, because an actor's voice has a certain, limited loudness and consequently the signal-to-noise ratio at the listener may become too low. Based on the influence of signal/noise ratio on speech intelligibility, it is deduced that the strength G ≥ 6 dB and room volumes have to be limited to 4000–4500 m3 in order to maintain sufficient loudness for natural speech. Sound level measurements during performances with natural speech in a theatre have been performed, to determine background noise levels in the hall due to the audience and to investigate the signal-to-noise ratio of the actors voice at the audience. The background levels are mainly determined by installation noise and not by the influence of the audience.
Natural Speech Intelligibility in Theatres in Relation to Their Acoustics
There is a certain tendency in the design of theatres to make the halls quite large. From a perspective of natural speech intelligibility and strength of speech this is disadvantageous, because an actor's voice has a certain, limited loudness and consequently the signal-to-noise ratio at the listener may become too low. Based on the influence of signal/noise ratio on speech intelligibility, it is deduced that the strength G ≥ 6 dB and room volumes have to be limited to 4000–4500 m3 in order to maintain sufficient loudness for natural speech. Sound level measurements during performances with natural speech in a theatre have been performed, to determine background noise levels in the hall due to the audience and to investigate the signal-to-noise ratio of the actors voice at the audience. The background levels are mainly determined by installation noise and not by the influence of the audience.
Natural Speech Intelligibility in Theatres in Relation to Their Acoustics
Luykx, Maarten P.M. (author) / Vercammen, Martijn L.S. (author)
Building Acoustics ; 18 ; 293-311
2011-12-01
19 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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