Abstract:The questions of the acoustic impact on a section of the population and the intelligibility of speech in transmission systems or in room acoustics are being treated in terms of statistics without consideration of the scatter in human perceptiveness. Both the nuisance threshold and the threshold for other kinds of perception differ from person to person and have a relatively wide scatter. Different approaches therefore cannot be extended to other investigations conducted with other parameters. The fidelity inde… Show more
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