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Background music in social interaction settings can hinder conversation. Yet,little is known of how specific properties of music impact speech processing.This paper addresses this knowledge gap by investigating 1) whether the maskingeffect of background music with lyrics is larger than that of music withoutlyrics, and 2) whether the masking effect is larger for more complex music. Toanswer these questions, a word identification experiment was run in which Dutchparticipants listened to Dutch CVC words embedded in stretches of backgroundmusic in two conditions, with and without lyrics, and at three SNRs. Threesongs were used of different genres and complexities. Music stretches with andwithout lyrics were sampled from the same song in order to control for factorsbeyond the presence of lyrics. The results showed a clear negative impact ofthe presence of lyrics in background music on spoken-word recognition. Thisimpact is independent of complexity. The results suggest that social spaces(e.g., restaurants, caf\'es and bars) should make careful choices of music topromote conversation, and open a path for future work.

Investigating the Effect of Music and Lyrics on Spoken-Word Recognition