Effects of talker gender and face masks on the speech recognition of 6-year-old children in a classroom.

Front Public Health · 2025 · PMC12206709 · PMID 40589801

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highly significantp < 0.0005actually significant

However, age demonstrated highly significant effects in both no-mask and surgical-mask conditions ( p < 0.0005), with older children performing better than younger children.

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a marginal trendp = 0.055so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

SNR = 12 dB) did not significantly affect speech recognition scores in any mask condition, although we observed a marginal trend towards significance in the KF94 mask condition ( p = 0.055). 3.2.2.

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an observed trendno p-value reported

This finding represents an observed trend in our specific talkers rather than a robust effect generalisable across speakers.

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