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Record W2776102775 · doi:10.1121/1.4777088

Speech levels in open plan offices

2001· article· en· W2776102775 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicFacilities and Workplace Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCasualConversationOpen planGovernment (linguistics)Computer scienceStandard deviationAgency (philosophy)Speech recognitionWork (physics)Applied psychologyPsychologyStatisticsMathematicsLinguisticsCommunicationPolitical scienceSociologyEngineering

Abstract

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A key variable for predicting speech privacy in open offices is the level of speech used. Since the environment influences vocal effort, speech levels needed to be measured in typical open office situations to more accurately calculate speech privacy in such offices. This paper describes measurements of voice levels used in face-to-face conversation in nine open offices in the Ottawa/Hull Area. Speech from 118 subjects was recorded and analyzed. Average voice levels in each office ranged from 48 to 55 dBA. The overall mean was 51 dBA with a standard deviation of 3.4 dBA. Levels from the current study were significantly lower than those in ASTM standard E1130, but the overall average and spectrum agree well with Pearsons’ results for casual conversation (K. S. Pearsons, R. L. Bennett, and S. Fidel, ‘‘Speech levels in various noise environments,’’ EPA-6001-77-025, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, May 1977). The paper describes the procedures and the results obtained. This work was done as part of a project for Public Works and Government Services Canada.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.313
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.317
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it