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The cognitive performance of employees in open-plan offices is impaired by the presence of speech sounds, all the more so when the intelligibility of the speech signals is improved. For that reason, speech intelligibility measures are used to…

In open-plan offices, employees often have to work despite being distracted by multiple sources of speech close to them. This disturbance is even more severe when the surrounding conversations are intelligible. For this reason the disruptive…

Speech noise is a major cause of annoyance in open-plan offices. The purpose of this research was to assess the quality of existing tools for predicting the nuisance potential of speech and highlight possibilities for improvement. The ways in…