Well-being in the built environment is a topic that features frequently in building standards
and certification schemes, in scholarly articles and in the general press. However, despite …

This classic and authoritative textbook contains material that is not over-simplified and can
be used to solve real-world noise control engineering problems. It covers the principles with …

Every speech sound that human beings produce or perceive is a composite of three
independent, yet interdependent correlates, ie, F0/pitch, intensity, and duration. Koffi (2019) …

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively
remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a …

Today, millions of standardized English as a foreign language proficiency tests are
administered globally each year. A large portion of this is conducted as a paper-based test …

Most auditory environments contain multiple sound waves that are mixed before reaching
the ears. In such situations, listeners must disentangle individual sounds from the mixture …

Sound absorbing micro-perforated panels (MPPs) are being increasingly used because of
their high quality in terms of hygiene, sustainability and durability. The present work …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare masked English speech recognition
thresholds between Spanish–English bilingual and English monolingual children and to …

Purpose Talkers often modify their speech when communicating with individuals who
struggle to understand speech, such as listeners with hearing loss. This study evaluated the …

Objective: Children with hearing loss experience greater difficulty understanding speech in
the presence of noise and reverberation relative to their normal hearing peers despite …