How do you reduce the effects of irrelevant speech - such as stress, decreased performance and lower productivity? Most likely sound masking would be part of the solution, whether artificially created using Lencore systems or by building services. But how loud should background sound be in an open plan office to reduce the effects of irrelevant speech? 

One of our Acoustic Consultants can help you answer that question, but you can also read this interesting paper from leading experts, including Valterri Hongisto, acoustic research leader and senior lecturer at Turku AMK - who once said 'Intelligible speech has been rated as the most distracting noise type in open-plan offices'...

Listen to Colin, our Managing Director and Acoustic Consultant, tell you more about Sound Masking…