Improving Speech Intelligibility with a Constant-Beamwidth, Wide-Bandwidth Acoustic Array

Friday, May 6, 2005 4:00 p.m. Douglas F. Winker Department of Electrical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin http://www.ece.utexas.edu Speech intelligibility in rooms, particularly ones that are highly reverberant, is often difficult to achieve. Typical loudspeaker applications require multiple installation locations, and compromises in audience coverage must often be made. The acoustic environment of…