commARCH (Commercial Architecture), January/February 2020
commARCH 51 Rooms for Speech Rooms for speech inside educational facilities can vary in size and function from a 10 seat meeting room to a 100 seat lecture hall to a 1000 seat theatre As a speech room increases in size it becomes more difficult to maintain speech intelligibility and more critical to optimize the acoustics of the room It is necessary to view the room as a passive amplification system Larger speech rooms naturally have lower signal to noise ratios because the average listener distance is greater and the speech signal has farther to travel Therefore speech rooms should be as small as possible for the intended capacity Photo Curt Ullery
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