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ACOUSTICS—METHODS OF
ASSESSING AND PREDICTING
SPEECH PRIVACY AND SPEECH
INTELLIGIBILITY
This Australian standard was prepared by Committee AK/4. It was approved on behalf
of the Council of the Standards Association of Australia on 20 August 1985 and
published on 4 November 1985.
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ACOUSTICS—METHODS OF
ASSESSING AND PREDICTING
SPEECH PRIVACY AND SPEECH
INTELLIGIBILITY
PREFACE
CONTENTS
Page
FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
METHODS
1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 4
2 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 4
3 Referenced Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 4
4 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 4
5 Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 4
6 Objective Methods of Predicting Speech Communication . . . . . . . .. 4
7 Subjective Method of Assessing Speech Communication . . . . . . . .. 8
8 Objective Methods of Predicting Speech Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 9
9 Subjective Method of Assessing Speech Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 12
10 Presentation of Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 13
11 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 13
APPENDICES
A Example(s) of Test List(s) of 50 Six-Word Ensembles of English as
Spoken by Native Speakers of Australian English (Adapted from
Ref. 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
B Four Lists of Phonetically Balanced Words for English as Spoken by
Australians (Ref. 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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ACOUSTICS METHODS OF ASSESSING AND PREDICTING SPEECH
PRIVACY AND SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY
FOREWORD
Speech intelligibility and privacy depend on many factors, including acoustic factors,
such as—
(a) the level of the speech signal, its frequency spectrum;
(b) space characteristics, such as reverberation and ambient sound level;
(c) non-acoustic factors, such as the type of message, talker and listener
characteristics, choice of test material, etc; and
(d) random and quasi-random factors, such as individual differences between talkers
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METHODS
1 SCOPE. This standard sets out objective methods and is a fraction determined over the 16 one-third
for predicting the attainability of, and subjective octave bands centred on frequencies from 200 Hz to
methods for assessing actual attainment of, both 6300 Hz, weighted for the contribution of each band
reliable speech communication and speech privacy, in to speech intelligibility.
a given environment. 4.4 Speech privacy (SP)—the potential of a
2 APPLICATION. This standard applies to— combination of acoustical factors, including speech
(a) speech communication in various spaces such as level, attenuation, ambient sound pressure level, and
intelligibility in auditoriums, class rooms, introduced masking sound (if present), to render
conference rooms, and offices; and intelligible speech within one area unintelligible in
another area, ranked on a semantic scale.
(b) speech privacy conditions in various spaces such
as offices, conference rooms, hotels, motels, 4.5 Reverberation time of an enclosure in a given
dwellings, and schools. frequency band (T 60)—the time required for the
average sound energy density in the enclosure to
It may also be used to assess intelligibility of a voice decrease to 10-6 of the initial value (i.e. by 60 dB)
reinforcement system in an auditorium. after the source has stopped.
It is not intended to apply to the assessment of 4.6 Phoneme—the smallest distinguishable acoustic
electronic communication systems.
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