Covering faces with masks, due to mandatory pandemic safety regulations, we can no
longer rely on the habitual daily-life information. This may be thought-provoking for healthy …

Introduction Face coverings and distancing as preventative measures against the spread of
the Coronavirus disease 2019 may impact communication in several ways that may …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, questions have been raised about the impact of face masks
on communication in classroom settings. However, it is unclear to what extent visual …

Teachers and students are wearing face masks in many classrooms to limit the spread of the
coronavirus. Face masks disrupt speech understanding by concealing lip-reading cues and …

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 …

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the impacts of a surgical mask and a
transparent mask on audio-only and audiovisual speech intelligibility in noise (ie, 0 dB …

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, covering the mouth region with a face mask became
pervasive in many regions of the world, potentially impacting how people communicate with …

The current study investigates the intelligibility of face-masked speech while manipulating
speaking style, presence of visual information about the speaker, and level of background …

The noise comfort of a tractor is a key factor in the evaluation of tractor comfort, and it has a
significant impact on the evaluation of the overall performance evaluation of a tractor. This …

The potential impact of mask-wearing specifically on early-childhood speech and language
development in classrooms has not been widely reported yet, although face masks are …