- Author
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Klepitch, D.
- Title
- Making Intelligibility Intelligible: A Proposed Hand Calculation Method for Design of Simple Intelligible Emergency Voice/Alarm Communications Systems for Fire Alarm System Designers.
- Coporate
- Koffel Associates, Inc., Ellicott City, MD
- Book or Conf
- Reaching New Horizons. Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, 6th International Conference. Proceedings. June 14-16, 2006,
Tokyo, Japan,
Evans, D. D.; Gordon, J.; Hasemi, Y.; Sekizawa, A., Editors,
1-13 p.,
2006
- Keywords
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performance based codes
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fire safety
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fire alarm systems
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NFPA 72
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design applications
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communication networks
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emergencies
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equations
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noise (sound)
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building materials
- Identifiers
- factors that affect speech intelligibility; Signal to Noise (S/N) Ratio; reverberation; echoes; distortion; methods of measuring speech intelligibility; International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC); Common Intelligibility Scale (CIS); proposed hand calculation method; %ALCONS Method; calculation of RT60; Directivity Factor; calculation of N; effect of S/N Ratio on %ALCONS