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51231 Acoustic Communication
Danish title: Akustisk kommunikation
Language: English Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: English

Previous course: C5131
No credit points with: C5131
Prerequisite: 51001
Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
Scope and form: Lectures, exercises and excursions
Examination: Oral exam (13-scale)
Contact person: Torben Poulsen, Building 352, Tel. +45 4525 3940, email tp@oersted.dtu.dk, http://www.dat.dtu.dk/~tp/

Department: Department of Acoustic Technology
Aim: To give the student an understanding of normal and impaired human sound perception with a view to evaluating speech and music communication systems, for example auditoria, loudspeaker installations, hearing aids-, and telephones. The student shall thus be able to tell about concepts, theories and methods within sound perception and speech intelligibility for normal and hearing-impaired persons.
Contents: The course is related to the technical and psychoacoustical aspects of a situation where persons speak to each other. The communication may be in a room or through an electroacoustic communication system such as a telephone or a hearing aid. The major topics in the course are principles of hearing and speech production, psychoacoustics (hearing threshold, loudness, masking etc), psychoacoustic measuring methods, speech and speech intelligibility, hearing impairment, principles of hearing aids and hearing aid fitting, hearing conservation and hearing protectors.