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Effect of face masks on speech understanding: A clinical perspective during speech audiometry
The objective was to measure the effect of various face masks on speech recognition threshold and the word recognition score in the presence of varying background noise levels. 20 normal-hearing adult subjects (a total of 40 ears) participated. Pure tone audiometry followed by speech recognition thr...
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Chinese PLA General Hospital
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9270560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35847571 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joto.2022.04.004 |
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author | Kumar, Rawish Munjal, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Anuradha Alam, Md Noorain Panda, Naresh K. |
author_facet | Kumar, Rawish Munjal, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Anuradha Alam, Md Noorain Panda, Naresh K. |
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description | The objective was to measure the effect of various face masks on speech recognition threshold and the word recognition score in the presence of varying background noise levels. 20 normal-hearing adult subjects (a total of 40 ears) participated. Pure tone audiometry followed by speech recognition threshold and word recognition score at the most comfortable level in varying signal-to-noise ratios (SNR0, SNR10, and SNR15) using surgical, pleated cloth, and N95 masks. Using surgical, cloth, and N95 masks, speech recognition thresholds increased by 1.8 dB, 4.4 dB, and 5.05 dB, respectively. Word recognition scores decreased by 32% without a mask, 43.7% in a surgical mask, 46.3% in a cloth mask, and 46.7% in N95 mask conditions, between SNR15 and SNR0. The speech recognition threshold was negatively affected with cloth and N95 masks. Surgical masks do not affect the word recognition scores at lower background noise levels. However, as the signal-to-noise ratio decreased, even the surgical, cloth, and N95 masks significantly impacted the word recognition score even in normal-hearing individuals. |
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spelling | pubmed-92705602022-07-14 Effect of face masks on speech understanding: A clinical perspective during speech audiometry Kumar, Rawish Munjal, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Anuradha Alam, Md Noorain Panda, Naresh K. J Otol Research Article The objective was to measure the effect of various face masks on speech recognition threshold and the word recognition score in the presence of varying background noise levels. 20 normal-hearing adult subjects (a total of 40 ears) participated. Pure tone audiometry followed by speech recognition threshold and word recognition score at the most comfortable level in varying signal-to-noise ratios (SNR0, SNR10, and SNR15) using surgical, pleated cloth, and N95 masks. Using surgical, cloth, and N95 masks, speech recognition thresholds increased by 1.8 dB, 4.4 dB, and 5.05 dB, respectively. Word recognition scores decreased by 32% without a mask, 43.7% in a surgical mask, 46.3% in a cloth mask, and 46.7% in N95 mask conditions, between SNR15 and SNR0. The speech recognition threshold was negatively affected with cloth and N95 masks. Surgical masks do not affect the word recognition scores at lower background noise levels. However, as the signal-to-noise ratio decreased, even the surgical, cloth, and N95 masks significantly impacted the word recognition score even in normal-hearing individuals. Chinese PLA General Hospital 2022-07 2022-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9270560/ /pubmed/35847571 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joto.2022.04.004 Text en © 2022 PLA General Hospital Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Production and hosting by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kumar, Rawish Munjal, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Anuradha Alam, Md Noorain Panda, Naresh K. Effect of face masks on speech understanding: A clinical perspective during speech audiometry |
title | Effect of face masks on speech understanding: A clinical perspective during speech audiometry |
title_full | Effect of face masks on speech understanding: A clinical perspective during speech audiometry |
title_fullStr | Effect of face masks on speech understanding: A clinical perspective during speech audiometry |
title_full_unstemmed | Effect of face masks on speech understanding: A clinical perspective during speech audiometry |
title_short | Effect of face masks on speech understanding: A clinical perspective during speech audiometry |
title_sort | effect of face masks on speech understanding: a clinical perspective during speech audiometry |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9270560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35847571 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joto.2022.04.004 |
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