The influence of rain and thunder on speech intelligibility

Abstract

In this paper, an evaluation of the influence of noise caused by rain and thunder on the intelligibility of sentences from the Serbian Matrix Sentence Test base (SMST) was performed. The first part of the paper describes an experiment in which the intelligibility of speech was tested by the binaural method using the objective STOI test, in the presence of reflection, diffusion noise and noise rain and thunder. The test results are presented in tabelar and graphical form. In the second part of the paper, a comparative analysis of intelligibility was performed with the results of similar tests. The conclusion of intelligibility was brougth using international standard IEC 60268-16:2011