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Intelligibility and recall of sentences spoken by adult and child talkers wearing face masks

With the Covid-19 pandemic, face masks have become part of our daily lives. While face masks are effective in slowing down the spread of the virus, they also make face-to-face communication more challenging. The present study sought to examine the impact of face masks on listeners' intelligibil...

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Autores principales: Truong, Thanh Lan, Weber, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Acoustical Society of America 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8487070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34598631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0006098
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description With the Covid-19 pandemic, face masks have become part of our daily lives. While face masks are effective in slowing down the spread of the virus, they also make face-to-face communication more challenging. The present study sought to examine the impact of face masks on listeners' intelligibility and recall of sentences produced by one German native adult and one child talker. In the intelligibility task, German native adult listeners watched video clips of either an adult or a child talker producing sentences with and without a face mask. In a cued-recall experiment, another group of German native listeners watched the same video clips and then completed a cued-recall task. The results showed that face masks significantly affected listeners' intelligibility and recall performance, and this effect was equally true for both talkers. The findings here contribute to the fast growing and urgent research regarding the impact of face masks on communication.
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spelling pubmed-84870702021-10-04 Intelligibility and recall of sentences spoken by adult and child talkers wearing face masks Truong, Thanh Lan Weber, Andrea J Acoust Soc Am Special Issue on Covid-19 Pandemic Acoustic Effects With the Covid-19 pandemic, face masks have become part of our daily lives. While face masks are effective in slowing down the spread of the virus, they also make face-to-face communication more challenging. The present study sought to examine the impact of face masks on listeners' intelligibility and recall of sentences produced by one German native adult and one child talker. In the intelligibility task, German native adult listeners watched video clips of either an adult or a child talker producing sentences with and without a face mask. In a cued-recall experiment, another group of German native listeners watched the same video clips and then completed a cued-recall task. The results showed that face masks significantly affected listeners' intelligibility and recall performance, and this effect was equally true for both talkers. The findings here contribute to the fast growing and urgent research regarding the impact of face masks on communication. Acoustical Society of America 2021-09 2021-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8487070/ /pubmed/34598631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0006098 Text en © 2021 Acoustical Society of America. 0001-4966/2021/150(3)/1674/8/$30.00 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8487070/
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