| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L89280/01 |
| Title: |
QUANTIFYING ROOM ACOUSTIC QUALITY USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Cox, Professor TJ |
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| Department: |
Acoustics (Res Cen) |
| Organisation: |
University of Salford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
20 April 1998 |
Ends: |
19 April 2001 |
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96,613
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| Building Ops & Management |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
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This project will investigate a system to enable measurements of occupied sapces where speech communication is important. Such spaces include shopping malls and railway stations where announcements need to be intelligible, and theatres where the quality of sound plays a crucial role in the enjoyment of a performance. The new system will measure the quality of the room from a speech signal as received by a microphone and hence estimate objective parameters such as reverberation time. A feasibility study of the applicants has demonstrated such a system working for the utterance of a single word by a single speaker.Occupied measurements are useful because they increase our understanding of acoustics when rooms are in-use virtually all of the knowledge base about desirable room acoustics is based on unoccupied data. This should lead to better design criteria and consequently better buildings. It would also enable a better evaluation of poor acoustics in existing buildings, so enabling remedial measures to be better designed.
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http://www.salford.ac.uk |