Effects of face masks on acoustic analysis and speech perception: Implications for peri-pandemic protocols
M. Magee, C. Lewis, G. Noffs, H. Reece, J. C. S. Chan, C. J. Zaga, C. Paynter, O. Birchall, S. Rojas Azocar, A. Ediriweera, M. W. Caverle, B. G. Schultz, A. P. Vogel
This study examines how different face masks affect speech acoustics and intelligibility, finding changes in frequency distribution and spectral features but no impact on word or sentence intelligibility.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · Dec 1, 2020Peer-reviewedBioengineering