The effects of face mask on speech production and its implication for forensic speaker identification-A cross-linguistic study.

ABSTRACT: This study aims to understand the effects of face mask on speech production between Mandarin Chinese and English, and on the automatic classification of mask/no mask speech and individual speakers. A cross-linguistic study on mask speech between Mandarin Chinese and English was then conducted. Continuous speech of the phonetically balanced texts in both Chinese and English versions were recorded from thirty native speakers of Mandarin Chinese (i.e., 15 males and 15 females) with and without wearing a surgical mask. The results of acoustic analyses showed that mask speech exhibited higher F0, intensity, HNR, and lower jitter and shimmer than no mask speech for Mandarin Chinese, whereas higher HNR and lower jitter and shimmer were observed for English mask speech. The results of classificati

SUBMITTER: Geng P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10062611 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature