The team conducted two separate experiments, one using images of female faces and the other using images of male faces, expressing a range of expressions. The images were taken from a published ...

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A Greenpoint woman has started making transparent face masks to help the hard of hearing who rely on reading lips obscured by more traditional face coverings amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Somebody who ...

Masks have become mandatory and is the new fashion during the Covid-19 pandemic. Wearing a transparent mask can facilitate communication for everyone, minimizing stress and improving interaction.

Experts at Hong Kong Lingnan University have created a new transparent face mask which they say enables barrier-free communication. While it's a breakthrough for the hearing impaired who may need to ...

Transparent facemasks and shields are costly compared with classic counterparts but could prove a boon for the deaf and hard of hearing battling to communicate in the coronavirus era. The concept has ...

As mask-wearing becomes the new norm around the world, researchers from the EPFL and Empa in Switzerland have come up with a way to improve at least one of the many challenges of wearing face ...

It's not the first face mask to include a transparent area to help those with hearing impairments communicate. But this 3D-printed one is fully transparent and reuseable. Compulsory mask-wearing has ...

Suzy Margueron, a retiree in Paris, usually walks five miles a day, so she knew something was wrong when she barely had the energy to make it to the grocery store in the spring. As it turned out, she ...