Speech redundancy masks up to 30 percent consonant loss in auditoriums

Evidence

The value of %ALcons thus estimates the percentage of consonants that are not perceived correctly in an auditorium. Relatively high values, 25–30%, may be acceptable, since the redundancy in speech makes it possible to ‘guess’ the ‘lost’ phones. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2485

Categorization

• CANDY: A light, tweetable fact: speech is redundant enough that losing a quarter of consonants barely matters to comprehension.