Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Fascicolo | 55 | 2021
Articolo | Effect of Different Face Masks on Speech and Singing: Self-Perception and Acoustic Analysis

Effect of Different Face Masks on Speech and Singing: Self-Perception and Acoustic Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this preliminary study is to better understand the effects of transparent, surgical, cloth, KN95 (FFP2), and singer’s face masks on speech and singing in French. A survey gathered self-perception, and a local and global acoustic analysis of conversational, loud spoken and sung productions by the same individual were conducted. According to the 303 subjects surveyed, plosive consonants seem to be produced with the greatest difficulty. Consonants requiring lip involvement seem to be the most affected. The transparent and KN95 (FFP2) masks attenuate the intensity of all the consonants and spoken utterances as a whole, unlike the singer’s mask.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 01 Agosto 2021 | Accettato: 07 Settembre 2021 | Pubblicato 11 Ottobre 2021 | Lingua: en

Keywords Face masks • Consonants • Speech • Self-perception • Singing • Phonetics

Copyright © 2021 Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Bernard Harmegnies. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2021/09/012


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