Is it true that listening to NOISEBATH makes a transcribers brain hurt?
Two known principles of psychoacoustics are: 1) As the similarity of sounds increases, the ability of the human ear to distinguish between them proportionally decreases, and 2) as the number of disparate sound sources increases, the intelligibility and recognizability of each of those sound sources proportionally decreases. In other words, the ear-to-brain sensory input apparatus is limited not only in its ability to determine distinguishing characteristics, but also in its ability to organize and analyze those distinguishing characteristics. It should be noted that even with the most sophisticated microphones, recording and signal treatment equipment, these abilities can be even further degraded due to the loss of certain nuances and vocal characteristics in the recording or eavesdropping system.
