Speech Intelligibility and Hearing Protector Selection

Abstract

This report provides a summary of speech intelligibility research and offers guidelines for selecting hearing protection based on speech intelligibility. MIL-STD-1472G (11Jan2012) Department of Defense Design Criteria Standard Human Engineering provides the basis for the guidelines using the Modified Rhyme Test and the Articulation Index.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 29, 2016
Accession Number
AD1031396

Entities

People

  • Efrem R. Reeves

Organizations

  • United States Army Aeromedical Research Lab

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Communication Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Design Criteria
  • Ear
  • Engineering
  • Frequency Bands
  • Hearing Disorders
  • Hearing Loss
  • Hearing Protection
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Military Communications
  • Military Operations
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Systems Analysis and Design