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dc.title	Effect of Different Face Masks on Speech and Singing: Self-Perception and Acoustic Analysis
dc.contributor.author	Harmegnies Bernard
dc.contributor.author	Pillot-Loiseau Claire
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2021/55/effect-of-different-face-masks-on-speech-and-singi/
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 55 \| September 2021
dc.issued	2021-10-11
dc.dateAccepted	2021-09-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-08-01
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2021/09/012
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Consonants
dc.subject	Consonants
dc.subject	Face masks
dc.subject	Face masks
dc.subject	Phonetics
dc.subject	Phonetics
dc.subject	Self-perception
dc.subject	Self-perception
dc.subject	Singing
dc.subject	Singing
dc.subject	Speech
dc.subject	Speech

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

Claire Pillot-Loiseau Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France

Bernard Harmegnies University of Mons, Belgium

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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.

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Oct. 11, 2021

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Sept. 7, 2021

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Aug. 1, 2021

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

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