The effects of helicopter interior noise on passenger annoyance for both reverie and listening situations was investigated. The relative effectiveness of several metrics for quantifying annoyance response for these situations was also studied. The noise stimuli were based upon recordings of the interior noise of civil helicopter research aircraft. These noises were presented at levels ranging from approximately 70 to 86 d with various tonal components selectively attenuated to give a range of spectra. The listening task required the subjects to listen to and record phonetically-balanced words presented within the various noise environments. Results indicate that annoyance during a listening condition is generally higher than annoyance under a reverie condition for corresponding interior noise environments. Attenuation of the tonal components results in increases in listening performance but has only a small effect upon annoyance for a given noise level.
Effect of helicopter noise on passenger annoyance
Meeting of the Acoust. Soc. of Am. ; 1979 ; Cambridge, MA, United States
1979-06-01
Conference paper
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English
Effect of Helicopter Noise on Passenger Annoyance
NTIS | 1979
|Annoyance of helicopter impulsive noise
NTRS | 1978
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