This would be because you use the sound of your own voice to constantly adjust how you’re speaking, it would be an ongoing feedback process that you’re not aware of.
Your brain is listening to what you are saying to check if it went right. If you hear yourself again with a slight delay, your brain thinks it made a mistake, and fluent speech is interrupted.
In other words, hearing yourself speak is important for fluent speech. If you mess with that, you mess with fluent speech.
A combination of two reasons. First of all, if you’re trying to talk and someone else is talking, your brain can only focus it’s language processing on so much at once, so either your brain considers what they’re saying noise, or it starts to lose it’s “train of thought” on your speech.
Secondly, when you’re speaking, your brain is specifically doing what it can to consider that your speech, and for the most part ignore it. Obviously there are many things happening when you speak, and messing with how you hear can change how you speak, but by adjusting the delay, you’re messing around with these systems, and causing it to slide from monitoring how you sound, up into the first point.
Same reason why deaf people talk in a different way. Whether we realise it or not, by hearing ourselves talk we make minor adjustments on the fly as we’re talking, and not having that or having that delayed just confuses us. You’re basically talking with zero feedback and something that’s really distracting.
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This would be because you use the sound of your own voice to constantly adjust how you’re speaking, it would be an ongoing feedback process that you’re not aware of.
Your brain is listening to what you are saying to check if it went right. If you hear yourself again with a slight delay, your brain thinks it made a mistake, and fluent speech is interrupted.
In other words, hearing yourself speak is important for fluent speech. If you mess with that, you mess with fluent speech.
A combination of two reasons. First of all, if you’re trying to talk and someone else is talking, your brain can only focus it’s language processing on so much at once, so either your brain considers what they’re saying noise, or it starts to lose it’s “train of thought” on your speech.
Secondly, when you’re speaking, your brain is specifically doing what it can to consider that your speech, and for the most part ignore it. Obviously there are many things happening when you speak, and messing with how you hear can change how you speak, but by adjusting the delay, you’re messing around with these systems, and causing it to slide from monitoring how you sound, up into the first point.
Same reason why deaf people talk in a different way. Whether we realise it or not, by hearing ourselves talk we make minor adjustments on the fly as we’re talking, and not having that or having that delayed just confuses us. You’re basically talking with zero feedback and something that’s really distracting.