Auditory perception of diferent anti-COVID masks in conversational, declaimed speech and singing: a case study
Abstract
What are the perceptual effects, in a quiet environment, of wearing six types of anti-COVID masks on the identification and discrimination of consonants, and on discrimination in spoken, declaimed and sung French sentences produced by one man and one woman? 21 listeners identified then discriminated the consonants /p, t, k, b, d, g, f, s, ʃ, v, z, ʒ/ in intervocalic position, produced by the female speaker. 39 listeners discriminated a spoken, declaimed (produced by a male and a female speaker) and sung (produced by the female speaker, a singer) sentence with and without mask: consonant identification was little affected, except for /b/ with the transparent window mask, but the presence of the transparent window and FFP2 masks was strongly discriminated with certainty compared to the no-mask condition, with the exception of singing, which appeared to be insensitive to the timbre attenuation heard and verbalized by the listeners for the other tasks.
Keywords
Facial masks, auditory perception, consonants, speaking voice, singing voiceReferences
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