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And echoes created by bouncing walls. that sort of smears the voice. another thing is that far-field voice tends to have very poor signal to noise ratio. signal to noise ratio is the ratio of signal divided by noise signal. say like in the courtroom the signal level when we measure it by sound pressure meter it might give something like 40 dd decibels. i'm talking probably with the total of about 80 db loudness and the signal to noise ratio is