An image of a real-world environment including one or more users, is received from an image capture device. A mask status of a first user of is determined by a processor based on the image. A stream of audio including speech from one or more users is captured from one or more audio transceivers. A first user speech from the stream of audio identified by the processor. The stream of audio is parsed, by the processor and based on the first user speech and based on an audio processing technique, to create a first user speech element. An augmented view that includes the first user speech element is generated, for a wearable computing device, based on the first user speech and based on the mask status.