@inproceedings{38fa9d6aa6d146d1a54846740aac8b0f,
title = "SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY IN DINING HALLS",
abstract = "Background noise and reverberation can reduce speech intelligibility. Speech intelligibility is important in social settings such as dining halls. However, dining halls often have less than ideal-acoustic conditions for social communication, with high levels of background noise and reverberation. This study evaluated the intelligibility of speech-in-noise in 4 dining halls at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign with different acoustic characteristics. A speech intelligibility test was created for each of the four environments using binaural room impulse response (BRIR) measured in each dining hall using two Head and Torso Simulators (HATS). Such BRIRs were convolved with the recorded speech stimuli (QuickSIN) to simulate the different environments. The results showed a higher probability of correctly identifying speech in dining halls with lower reverberation times. This highlights the importance of acoustic treatments in university dining halls.",
keywords = "Speech intelligibility, convolution, dining halls, reverberation times",
author = "Pasquale Bottalico",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 European Acoustics Association, EAA. All rights reserved.; 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023 ; Conference date: 11-09-2023 Through 15-09-2023",
year = "2023",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of Forum Acusticum",
publisher = "European Acoustics Association, EAA",
booktitle = "Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023",
}