The influence of rain and thunder on speech intelligibility

Dijana Kostić; Zoran Milivojević; Bojan Prlinčević; Milan Cekić

doi:10.46793/ICEMIT23.279K

Authors

Dijana Kostić Šargan inženjering d.o.o. Niš
Zoran Milivojević Academy of Applied Technical and Preschool Studies Niš, Serbia
Bojan Prlinčević Kosovo and Metohija Academy of Applied Studies Leposavić, Serbia
Milan Cekić Mikkelsen Electronics Niš, Serbia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46793/ICEMIT23.279K

Abstract

In this paper, an evaluation of the influence of noise caused by rain and thunder on the intelligibility of sentences from the Serbian Matrix Sentence Test base (SMST) was performed. The first part of the paper describes an experiment in which the intelligibility of speech was tested by the binaural method using the objective STOI test, in the presence of reflection, diffusion noise and noise rain and thunder. The test results are presented in tabelar and graphical form. In the second part of the paper, a comparative analysis of intelligibility was performed with the results of similar tests. The conclusion of intelligibility was brougth using international standard IEC 60268-16:2011

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