Why does speech recognition accuracy decrease when Lombard effect compensation is applied excessively in noisy environments?

💡 Explanation

The speech recognition degrades because excessive Lombard compensation leads to over-amplification, therefore flattening the spectral peaks and valleys, or spectral contrast, required for phonetic distinction, rather than improving intelligibility, the over-amplification reduces critical spectral cues.

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