The ability of personnel to communicate accurately is paramount to the successful operation of man-machine systems. Degradation of speech intelligibility leads to misunderstandings, operational errors, and the increased risk of accidents. The quantification of auditory workload is a first attempt at modeling the impact of degraded communication on task performance.
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