The degree to which an individual's speech is understood by others.
The quality, especially tape recorded speech, of being understandable in the sense that each individual word can be heard and recognized by a listener with normal hearing.
The degree to which a conversation can be understood or is comprehensible.
The ability to detect difference among speech sounds (e.g. to hear words like manner, matter and master as separate words).
The ease of understanding a person's speech. Often, poor intelligibility results from inexact articulation. It may also be caused by reduced volume.