“Speech Intelligibility – a JBL Professional Technical Note” Technical Notes Volume 1, No. 26
1. Introduction: The purpose of a sound system is to transmit information. In the case of public address, paging, voice alarm and speech reinforcement systems the object is to transmit intelligible speech to listeners and intended message recipients. This aspect is far more important than sound quality per se, since there is no point in designing a system if it cannot be understood or is incapable of ‘getting the message across.’ Although sound quality and speech intelligibility are inextricably linked, they are not the same. It is possible to have a poor sounding system that is highly intelligible (e....
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