The Noise Factor.....

"The human vocal chords are a very good noise generator," said Elliott Berger,
a senior scientist in auditory research for Indianapolis-based Aearo Technologies and an adjunct professor
at Indiana University, Bloomington, in audiology and occupational hearing loss.
"Certainly, anybody who's been in a room with a screaming child knows that. ..."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06015/638144.stm