Measurement and Prediction of the Spatial Decay of Speech in Open-Plan Offices

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This thesis consists of seven publications that presented results of room acoustic research studies. Room acoustic measurement and prediction methods for work spaces are studied. Measurements are made in industrial workrooms, open-plan offices and two significantly different laboratory spaces of Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Turku. This thesis presents a new room acoustic measurement method for open-plan offices. The method is published in ISO 3382-3:2012 standard. The method is developed from a method originally used in room acoustic measurements of industrial workrooms. An omnidirectional loudspeaker and wide band noise signal are used to measure spatial decay of sound pressure level (SPL) of speech from one workstation to other workstations on a measurement line. SPL of masking sound and speech transmission index (STI) are also measured in the workstations. The measurement results are used to determine single-number quantities: spatial decay rate of the A-weighted SPL of

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