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There are many factors that influence speech intelligibility. These factors may reside within the speaker, the listener, the context, or the environment. Because of the broad nature of this concept, we often prefer the more inclusive term of comprehensibility.

Intelligibility and comprehensibility are assessed at the discourse level through analyses of read and conversational speech. Comprehensibility is influenced by segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech production and by all aspects of language ...

new techniques may raise intelligibility rates to 1000 w.p.m. A speeded speech program has already been instituted on an experimental basis at a school for the blind in Winnetka, Illinois.