How to communicate clearly while wearing a face mask

Luna Mittig explaining details of facial expressions and gestures on a video installation in the Museum of Communication in Nuremberg, Germany. She is a qualified voice and speech trainer and gives guided tours, which is much more strenuous when wearing a face mask. — dpa

Luna Mittig works with her voice, so she finds wearing a mask challenging to say the least: Unless she speaks very loudly and clearly, often, people don’t understand what she’s saying.

Mittig is a professional voice and speech trainer, and gives tours at Nuremberg’s Museum of Communication in Germany. That’s a tougher job when you’re wearing a mask, for her and her listeners alike.