On the acoustical quality of conversational speech inside vehicles
Paper in proceeding, 2010

The influence of room acoustics and driving noise in vehicle interiors on the subjectively perceived sound quality of conversations between passengers was studied. A laboratory test with 25 participants was performed to assess the impact of interior transfer functions and driving noise at different velocities. The interference of other factors like varying speech spectra and temporal fluctuations of the driving noise was minimized as far as possible. A very strong relationship of speech-to-noise ratio and the subjective speech quality was found. Consequentially, the speech signal level, due to the influence of different interior room acoustics, seems to play a more important role than the varied speech timbre or other parameters. Further interrelations of acoustical and psychoacoustical metrics and parameters were investigated as well.

Vehicle Interiors

Speech Quality

Room Acoustics

Driving Noises

Author

Oliver Jung

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Applied Acoustics

39th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2010, INTER-NOISE 2010; Lisbon; Portugal; 13 June 2010 through 16 June 2010

Vol. 5 3431-3439
9781617823961 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics

ISBN

9781617823961

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10/8/2017