Table 1.

Overview of settings for environmental noise monitoring.

Setting	Description
Bar	Conversation of two people sitting at a table positioned next to a wall in a bar. Electronic music played from four loudspeakers placed at the upper corners of a square room, with several other tables occupied.
Canteen	Recorded during a lunch break at a crowded (>100 people) canteen.
Cinema	Recorded during a science-fiction movie in the middle of the cinema hall with a capacity of about 150 people.
Concert	Symphony orchestra and piano playing the Emperor Concerto (Beethoven) and Symphony No. 15 (Shostakovich); seat at the back left of the parquet, all seats occupied.
Construction site	Road construction site including jackhammer noise and construction vehicle noise.
Housekeeping	Recordings during cooking, vacuum cleaning, cleaning out the dishwasher, and dish washing.
Museum	Exhibition of paintings. Walking on different floors (tiles and creaking wooden floorboards). Recordings include announcements over loudspeakers and the collection of the backpack from the cloak room.
Music club	Recorded while dancing on the dance floor at an electronic music event.
Office	Recorded in an office with 4–8 people (30 m2). Mainly quiet computer work and short conversations.
Restaurant	Seat at the bar in front of the cooking island, all tables occupied.
Street	Recorded at a busy intersection with urban road traffic.
Commuter train	Seat at the window in a middle row of a full coach. Measurements included announcements over loudspeakers, eating, tunnels, luggage put on rack, conversations, talking, and crying children.
Train station	Recorded at busy main halls of train stations in two central European cities with around 200,000 inhabitants.