Effects of Experience on Recognition of Speech Produced with a Face Mask

Autor/inn/en	Crinnion, Anne Marie; Toscano, Joseph C.; Toscano, Cheyenne M.
Titel	Effects of Experience on Recognition of Speech Produced with a Face Mask
Quelle	In: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7 (2022), Artikel 46 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Crinnion, Anne Marie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2365-7464
DOI	10.1186/s41235-022-00388-4
Schlagwörter	Hygiene; COVID-19; Pandemics; Disease Control; Speech Communication; Barriers; Listening; Comprehension; Adjustment (to Environment) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hörvorgang; Zuhören; Verstehen; Verständnis
Abstract	Over the past two years, face masks have been a critical tool for preventing the spread of COVID-19. While previous studies have examined the effects of masks on speech recognition, much of this work was conducted early in the pandemic. Given that human listeners are able to adapt to a wide variety of novel contexts in speech perception, an open question concerns the extent to which listeners have adapted to masked speech during the pandemic. In order to evaluate this, we replicated Toscano and Toscano (PLOS ONE 16(2):e0246842, 2021), looking at the effects of several types of face masks on speech recognition in different levels of multi-talker babble noise. We also examined the effects of listeners' self-reported frequency of encounters with masked speech and the effects of the implementation of public mask mandates on speech recognition. Overall, we found that listeners' performance in the current experiment (with data collected in 2021) was similar to that of listeners in Toscano and Toscano (with data collected in 2020) and that performance did not differ based on mask experience. These findings suggest that listeners may have already adapted to masked speech by the time data were collected in 2020, are unable to adapt to masked speech, require additional context to be able to adapt, or that talkers also changed their productions over time. Implications for theories of perceptual learning in speech are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01