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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Volume 131, Issue 4, Pages 2817-2827Publisher
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/1.3689549
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- Italian National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention
- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research
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Investigations into vocal doses and parameters were carried out on 40 primary school teachers (36 females and 4 males) in six schools in Italy, divided into two groups of three, A and B, on the basis of the type of building and the mid-frequency reverberation time in the classrooms, which was 1.13 and 0.79 s, respectively. A total of 73 working-day samples were collected (66 for females and 7 for males), from which 54 traditional lessons were analyzed separately. The average value over the working days of the mean sound pressure level of the voiced speech at 1 m from the teacher's mouth was 62.1 dB for the females and 57.7 dB for the males, while the voicing time percentage was 25.9 and 25.1 %, respectively. Even though the vocal doses and parameters did not differ for the two school groups, the differences in the subjective scores were significant, with enhanced scores in group B. A 0.72 dB increase in speech level per 1 dB increase in background noise level, L-A90, was found during traditional lessons, as well as an increase in the mean value of the fundamental frequency with an increase in L-A90, at a rate of 1.0 Hz/dB. (C) 2012 Acoustical Society of America. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3689549]
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