Effects of duration of repeated impulsive sounds on noisiness

Autor: Kiyoto Izumi, Asato Kobayashi, Takashi Yano
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Environment International, Vol 16, Iss 4, Pp 547-554 (1990)
ISSN: 0160-4120
DOI: 10.1016/0160-4120(90)90024-z
Popis: While many studies on the effects of duration of steady-state sound have so far been presented, there are few studies for non-steady sounds. This paper shows the effects of duration longer than 2 s for impulsive sounds, using repeated impulsive sounds of 1 kHz pure tone and real-life printer sounds. From this study, the following conclusions have been reached: (1) Noisiness of both test sounds grows systematically with duration from 2 to 256 s. (2) The penalty for doubling of duration is about 5 dB for the 1 kHz pure tone impulses and about 3 dB for the printer sound. The latter value is consistent with that for steady-state sound. (3) The difference of doubling of duration penalties between both sounds depends mainly on the difference of level fluctuation between them.
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