The effects of a surgical mask and an N95 mask on intelligibility of explicit and ambiguous speech produced in the operating room environment
Abstract Purpose We investigated the effects of a surgical mask and an N95 mask on speech intelligibility using explicit and ambiguous sentences in Japanese. In addition, the effects of background noise specific to an operating room environment on the speech intelligibility of these sentences were a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s44254-023-00041-3 |