Mosque as a Bilingual Space – an Investigation on Speech Intelligibility in Mosque Acoustics Using Simulation Techniques

Mosques are Islamic places of worship where speech and music rituals performed. Since two different languages spoken there, mosques described as bilingual spaces. Among studies on the complex acoustic structure there only few intelligibility none characteristics mosque. Therefore, a comprehensive study has been carried out to evaluate comfort contemporary Turkish (CTM) over Arabic languages. In CTM model providing optimum conditions recommended in literature is examined by applying simulation auralisation techniques, well word recognition tests. As result, condition found insufficient terms both Also, with decrease Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), ratio observed at least times faster than ones. This viewed an outline for researchers further mosque acoustics intelligibility, thus support standardisation process criteria mosques.