Presentation 2021-12-23
Influential observation to Japanese vowel pronunciation by a change in the wearing form of the face mask
Masanori Akita, Takashi Kido, Shinya Ohsaubo, Yoichi Midorikawa,
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Abstract(in English) Wear of a mask is forced by society under COVID-19 environment. Its material and a wear way are a serious problem. In our laboratory, influence of utterance by wear of this mask was observed using a change in formant frequencies of 5 Japanese vowels. The results were previously appeared. However, the results were obtained in ordinary wear situation. In this report, a change in the formant frequency was measured when a subject took out a nose and put on a mask. Corresponding method of sound utterance is considered in the mask society which will continue for a while from now on.
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Keyword(in English) COVID-19 / Formant / Japanese vowels / Surgical mask / Lombard effect
Paper # EA2021-62
Date of Issue 2021-12-15 (EA)

Conference Information
Committee EA / US
Conference Date 2021/12/22(2days)
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Place (in English) Sojo University
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Topics (in English) [Joint Meeting on Acoustics and Ultrasonics Subsociety] Engineering/Electro Acoustics, Ultrasonics, etc.
Chair Yoshinobu Kajikawa(Kansai Univ.) / Yoshikazu Koike(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Kenichi Furuya(Oita Univ.) / Shoichi Koyama(Univ. of Tokyo) / Hikaru Miura(Nihon Univ.) / Kentaro Nakamura(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Kenichi Furuya(NTT) / Shoichi Koyama(RitsumeikanUniv.) / Hikaru Miura(Tohoku Univ.) / Kentaro Nakamura(Chiba Univ.)
Assistant Yukou Wakabayashi(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Tatsuya Komatsu(LINE) / Shin Yoshizawa(Tohoku Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics / Technical Committee on Ultrasonics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Influential observation to Japanese vowel pronunciation by a change in the wearing form of the face mask
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) COVID-19
Keyword(2) Formant
Keyword(3) Japanese vowels
Keyword(4) Surgical mask
Keyword(5) Lombard effect
1st Author's Name Masanori Akita
1st Author's Affiliation Oita University(Oita Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Takashi Kido
2nd Author's Affiliation Oita University(Oita Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Shinya Ohsaubo
3rd Author's Affiliation Oita University(Oita Univ.)
4th Author's Name Yoichi Midorikawa
4th Author's Affiliation Oita University(Oita Univ.)
Date 2021-12-23
Paper # EA2021-62
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) EA-311
Page pp.pp.32-35(EA),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2021-12-15 (EA)