St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster became the first permanent home of the house of commons in 1548. The building had to be adapted to conform to its new use. Visual and architectural adaptations to the space have been discussed in detail, but the building's new role also required improvements to the working use of the space as a forum for public debate. In this essay, acoustic techniques are used to explore how speeches and debate would have sounded during the Georgian period and consider how St Stephen's was adapted for this new use. The results demonstrate that, despite these alterations, the 18th‐century house of commons was not ideally suited to speaking or listening to debate. The listening experience was not uniform across the chamber, and its former use as a medieval chapel may have influenced how well certain positions in the chamber would have experienced speech.

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格鲁吉亚英格兰的辩论之声：下议院的听觉化

威斯敏斯特的圣斯蒂芬教堂于 1548 年成为下议院的第一个永久性住所。该建筑必须进行改造以适应其新用途。已经详细讨论了对该空间的视觉和建筑改造，但该建筑的新角色还需要改进该空间作为公共辩论论坛的工作用途。在这篇文章中，声学技术被用来探索乔治亚时期演讲和辩论的声音，并考虑圣斯蒂芬是如何适应这种新用途的。结果表明，尽管有这些改变，18 世纪的下议院并不适合演讲或聆听辩论。整个房间的聆听体验并不统一，