STI ALcons RASTI Articulation Loss of Consonants to Speech Transmission Index convert

● Intelligibility Conversion ●

%ALcons = Articulation Loss of Consonants in % ← → STI = Speech Transmission Index

The understanding of speech (speech intelligibility) is directly dependent of the background
noise level, of the reverberation time and of the size of the room. For the rating of the
understanding of speech, we have different methods, where STI and %ALcons are established.

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AlC - STI Formula

This conversion is to be regarded with some doubts,
because there are different evaluations of measurements.

The Speech Transmission Index STI is a machine measure of intelligibility whose
value varies from 0 (Completely unintelligible) to 1 (perfect intelligibility).

STI-Scale - sengpielaudio

STI	0 - 0.3	0.3 - 0.45	0.45 - 0.6	0.60 - 0.75	0.75 - 1.0
	unexceptable	poor	fair	good	excellent
ALcons	100 - 33%	33 - 15%	15 - 7%	7 - 3%	3 - 0%

Since %ALcons expresses loss of consonant definition, lower values are associated with greater intelligibility. Zero %ALcons indicates perfect clarity. It is generally assumed that the maximum allowable value for typical paging applications is 10 %, assuming that the environment is relatively free of masking noise. For learning environments and voice warning systems, the desired value is 5 % or less.

We know of the characteristic nonlinear decrease of intelligibility with distance from the sound source.

There is an empirical conversion formula after Farrel Becker:

ALcons and STI

Umrechnung: STI ALcons RASTI - sengpielaudio

For r < 3.5 × D_c at which direct/reverberation ratio D/R = −11 dB

where
D_c = Critical distance
r = Distance from the nearest loudspeaker
T₆₀ = RT (averaged over 1 and 2 kHz)
V = Volume of the room
Q = Directivity of the nearest source
M = Acoustic modifier for reverberant power = 1 is a conservative assumption
(1 + n) = Total number of equal sources
K = Listener factor ≈ 2 % for a good listener. For
r > 3.5 × D_c (Reverberant field, always worse than above)
%ALcons = 9 × T₆₀ + K
%ALcons < 10 % intelligibility is very good
%ALcons < 15 % intelligibility is acceptable
%ALcons > 15 % intelligibility will be a problem

Quantity to be measured	Unit of measurement	Good values
%ALcons	Articulation loss (popular in USA)	< 10 %
C50	Clarity index (not widespread)	> 3 dB
STI (RASTI)	Intelligibility (international known)	> 0.6

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