{"id":6965,"date":"2021-01-15T14:41:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imegcorp.com\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2021-01-15T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:17:10","slug":"architectural-acoustics-is-key-to-clear-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imegcorp.com\/insights\/blog\/architectural-acoustics-is-key-to-clear-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Architectural acoustics is key to clear speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">By Jeff Boldt<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">When classes became fully remote last year, many teachers and students noticed just how important it is to be able to hear one another clearly \u2013 especially professors teaching remotely from large classrooms. They need to be able to interact without distraction from noise, echo, and poor speech clarity, and both students and teachers want less of the ubiquitous \u201cCan you hear me now?\u201d interruptions to their workflow. This is where acoustic design comes in to play.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Good acoustic design allows people and audiovisual systems to work better and support the hearing impaired, students with attention deficit, and students with a youthful lack of concentration. When we hear better, we see, concentrate, and learn better because we\u2019re less distracted by the noise around us.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In my Engineer\u2019s Notebook column for the January 2021 issue of ASHRAE Journal, I once again collaborated with David Wright, IMEG Senior Acoustic Technical Specialist, to explain how room functionality improves with improved architectural acoustics in rooms used for collaboration, instruction, and assembly where clear speech is needed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\">Click\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW254220153 BCX9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imegcorp.com\/library\/ashrae-engineers-notebook-learning-to-use-architectural-acoustics-in-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">here<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\">\u00a0to read and download a PDF of the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\">column<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\">as it appeared in the ASHRAE Journal and check out\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW254220153 BCX9\">our<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW254220153 BCX9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imegcorp.com\/library\/ashrae-engineers-notebook-learning-a-vocabulary-for-acoustics-fundamentals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">previous column on acoustic fundamentals<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW254220153 BCX9\">.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW254220153 BCX9\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good acoustic design helps people hear and concentrate better in educational environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[241,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Architectural acoustics is key to clear speech - 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