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What is the Lombard Effect?

The Lombard Effect is quite significant in some listening environments. This phenomenon is known to cause changes in speech production such as talking louder and changing the pitch structure of speech. It serves the purpose of enhancing communication in noisy environments.

Watch the video to hear what that might sound like.

 

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    Sandra Vandenhoff

    Dr. Sandra Vandenhoff is an audiologist with hearing loss, founder of HEARa, Hearing Rehabilitation teacher, and Canadian author, who does not remember saying on her first day of wearing hearing aids: "Mom, I can hear my shoelaces!"

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