Microphone placement and equalization for speech intelligibility

Protocol: A PERFORMER’S SPOKEN AND SUNG words should be intelligible for the audience to understand what is being said or sung.



However, it can be challenging to retain intelligibility when amplifying the voice.



Microphone placement on the performer and what is done with the signal from the microphone can greatly affect how intelligible the amplified voice is. Loudness by itself is not enough for intelligibility. In this article, we present some facts on speech intelligibility and how to retain it.