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SUBMITTED BY:
Rigon, Joey Lord V.
Punzalan, Mark Angelo
SUBMITTED TO:
Engr. Francis Wednesday Samonte
SUBMITTED DATE:
Dec. 17, 2014
II. OBJECTIVES
The main purpose of this audio amplifier circuit or classroom microphone system is to be useful
in classroom and to reduce the strain of lecturing, if the surrounding environment is noisy. It can also
show how the signals are being amplified.
III. DESIGN
A. MATERIALS NEEDED:
LM380
LED (red)
10k potentiometer
Speaker 8ohms 2W
9V Battery
Condenser Mic
BC548
Slide Switch
Capacitors:
100uF 25V
10uF 25V
0.01uF
0.1uF
0.1uF
Resistors:
330ohms
330ohms
56k
12k
33k
1M
B. SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM:
III. CONCLUSION
The typical classroom presents a very difficult listening situation for a child with hearing
impairment. In a typical classroom, the child must overcome three main problems:
Reverberation:
The construction of the typical classroom(with its sharp angles and many flat, hard surfaces)
generates reflections and echoes that can mask many critical features of the original speech signal.
Background Noise:
Classrooms tend to be very noisy places. The level of background noise in the typical classroom
has been shown to equal or sometimes even exceed the level of the teachers voice. Children with
hearing impairment require the teachers voice to be at least 20 to 30dB louder than the competing
noise, that is a +20 - +30 dB signal to noise ratio (S/N), to achieve optimum speech understanding.
Unfortunately this is almost never the case, and control of the noise source is often outside the
teachers hands.
Distance:
The size of most classrooms is a quite large. The farther the child from the teacher, the quieter
the level and the poorer the sound quality of the teachers voice. Teachers rarely stay rooted in one spot
as they teach, so preferential seating within three feet of the teacher is impossible on a full-time basis.
IV. RECOMMENDATION
More favorable S/N ratios are achieved primarily by
-Reducing noise levels
-Boosting speech levels
Reducing noise level in the classroom
Providing favorable listening conditions is accomplished in part by reducing noise levels in the
instructional setting. Noise-reducing measures include:
-Removing noise source
-Increasing distance from noise sources
-Reducing areas of hard, sound-reflective surfaces
-Increasing areas of soft, sound-absorbing surfaces such as acoustic tile, carpet, bulletin boards,
drapes, and tennis balls on chair and desk feet