Impact of room acoustics on perceived vocal fatigue of staff- members in Higher-education learning environments: a pilot study.

Duran S, Ausiello L. Impact of room acoustics on perceived vocal fatigue of staff- members in Higher-education learning environments: a pilot study. In: AES Convention 148. Audio Engineering Society; 2020. Paper 584. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20822

@inproceedings{Duran2020_20822,
  author = {Duran, Sebastian and Ausiello, Ludovico},
  title = {{Impact of room acoustics on perceived vocal fatigue of staff- members in Higher-education learning environments: a pilot study.}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 148},
  note = {Paper 584},
  year = {2020},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20822}
}

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TI  - Impact of room acoustics on perceived vocal fatigue of staff- members in Higher-education learning environments: a pilot study.
AU  - Duran, Sebastian
AU  - Ausiello, Ludovico
T2  - AES Convention 148
M1  - Paper 584
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
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AB  - Although it is demonstrated how vocal fatigue and discomfort of teachers can be correlated to room acoustics properties of teaching environments [1;2] the BB93 English normative (2015) [3] does not provide acoustic requirements for higher-education learning environments. The presented pilot study aims to expand previous research regarding acoustic design criteria for higher education learning environments [4]. A comparative analysis between subjective and objective data collected in two lecture theatres at Solent University suggests how both excessive background noise levels and too low reverberation time values might lead to vocal fatigue issues, confirming the necessity to extend the current UK regulations and include in its scope Higher education learning environments.
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