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CambridgeReducing Noise Distractions and Achieving Speech Privacy in the Modern Workplace

April 5TH | 11 AM ET

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Overheard conversations create distraction in the work environment. These conversations are a source of dissatisfaction and frustration to workers, can result in a loss of productivity to employers, and in specific cases can be a potential regulatory/financial liability.

This free fastcast demystifies the topic of speech privacy and sound masking, shows you how to set goals for levels of speech privacy, and addresses how privacy performance is measured. Basic level acoustic principals are presented to demonstrate factors which minimize the undesirable distraction of one's surroundings. Information regarding key elements for a properly performing sound masking system will be examined, along with a simplistic cost analysis of varying approaches in order to improve speech privacy conditions and reduce the "radius of distraction".

Learning Objectives:

  • Acoustic Privacy - Understand the importance of acoustic privacy and the effect on occupants.
  • ABCs of Acoustics - The principals involved in good acoustic design and effects on speech privacy.
  • Speech Privacy - Understand what speech privacy is and how it can be quantified.
  • Sound Masking - Understand the role sound masking plays in contributing to speech privacy.

Featured speakers:

Mike Griffitt Mike Griffitt
Field Sales Engineer, Cambridge Sound Management

As a Field Sales Engineer at Cambridge Sound Management, Mike supports dealers and acoustical consultants. Mike has over thirty years of experience in multiple areas of AV and specifically has a passion for audio, as an audio engineer, producer and musician. He has worked in sales and as a design engineer for several AV & broadcast integration groups, consulting firms, and AV equipment manufacturers to include: Extron, Listen Technologies, Williams Sound, LLC. Over the past decade, he has trained countless people in the AV industry in the areas of video, switching, fiber optics, streaming, audio systems and programming. Most recently, he has focused on teaching the AV marketplace about assistive listening products.



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