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    Effects of face masks on acoustic analysis and speech perception: Implications for peri-pandemic protocols

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    Magee, M; Lewis, C; Noffs, G; Reece, H; Chan, JCS; Zaga, CJ; Paynter, C; Birchall, O; Rojas Azocar, S; Ediriweera, A; ...
    Date
    2020-12
    Source Title
    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    Publisher
    Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Magee, Michelle; Vogel, Adam
    Affiliation
    Melbourne School of Health Sciences
    Audiology and Speech Pathology
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    Magee, M., Lewis, C., Noffs, G., Reece, H., Chan, J. C. S., Zaga, C. J., Paynter, C., Birchall, O., Rojas Azocar, S., Ediriweera, A., Kenyon, K., Caverlé, M. W., Schultz, B. G. & Vogel, A. P. (2020). Effects of face masks on acoustic analysis and speech perception: Implications for peri-pandemic protocols. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148 (6), pp.3562-3568. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0002873.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/253870
    DOI
    10.1121/10.0002873
    Abstract
    Wearing face masks (alongside physical distancing) provides some protection against infection from COVID-19. Face masks can also change how people communicate and subsequently affect speech signal quality. This study investigated how three common face mask types (N95, surgical, and cloth) affected acoustic analysis of speech and perceived intelligibility in healthy subjects. Acoustic measures of timing, frequency, perturbation, and power spectral density were measured. Speech intelligibility and word and sentence accuracy were also examined using the Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech. Mask type impacted the power distribution in frequencies above 3 kHz for the N95 mask, and above 5 kHz in surgical and cloth masks. Measures of timing and spectral tilt mainly differed with N95 mask use. Cepstral and harmonics to noise ratios remained unchanged across mask type. No differences were observed across conditions for word or sentence intelligibility measures; however, accuracy of word and sentence translations were affected by all masks. Data presented in this study show that face masks change the speech signal, but some specific acoustic features remain largely unaffected (e.g., measures of voice quality) irrespective of mask type. Outcomes have bearing on how future speech studies are run when personal protective equipment is worn.

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