Standardization of speech level measurement
Karl S. Pearsons · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1987
The level of speech is measured using a variety of instrumentation and techniques. Most methods serve the needs of the particular user. However, the many different schemes make it difficult to compare one set of speech levels with another. In an attempt to provide a standard method of measurement, a standards working group was formed to develop a simple, meaningful, repeatable method for quantifying speech. This paper discusses the difficulties of providing such a measure and presents the philosophy of the working group's proposed method. The proposed method will be described and relationships with other speech measurement techniques will be presented.