SIGNALS,SPECTRA AND DSP

Classroom Microphone System

SUBMITTED BY:
Rigon, Joey Lord V.
Punzalan, Mark Angelo
SUBMITTED TO:
Engr. Francis Wednesday Samonte

SUBMITTED DATE:
Dec. 17, 2014

AMA COMPUTER COLLEGE PASIG

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

Boosting speech levels in the classroom

Favorable listening conditions may be further achieved by taking a number of steps to boost speech or
other primary signal input levels in the classroom setting. These steps include:
-Decreasing the physical distance of instruction
-Using FM sound systems
The energy in a teachers speech drops by 6 dB with each doubling in distance from a students
microphone, as long as there are no reflections or reverberations in the room. Thus, if the teachers
speech is 70dB at two feet, it will be 64dB at four feet, 58dB at eight feet, and 52dB at sixteen feet.
Reducing teacher-to-student ratios and/or seating and hearing-impaired child closer to the teacher will
have a positive effect. However, these practical measures may fall short of the S/N ratios required by
some students. For this reason, Classroom Microphone System are often used, which ensure that the
signals delivered to the cochlear implant in the teaching environment are optimized for auditory
learning.
V. REFERENCE
http://www.electroschematics.com/5517/classroom-mic/
LM380 Datasheet
BC548 Datasheet