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SUBMITTER: Porschmann C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7857507 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 20201201 6
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the wearing of face masks covering mouth and nose has become ubiquitous all around the world. This study investigates the impact of typical face masks on voice radiation. To analyze the transmission loss caused by masks and the influence of masks on directivity, this study measured the full-spherical voice directivity of a dummy head with a mouth simulator covered with six masks of different types, i.e., medical masks, filtering facepiece respirator masks, and cloth f ...[more]