The absolute limit of comprehension for sighted people is 10 syllables per second. Blind people, however, can comprehend speech sped up to 25 syllables per seco

The absolute limit of comprehension for sighted people is 10 syllables per second. Blind people, however, can comprehend speech sped up to 25 syllables per second. This sample is playing at 16 syllables per second and it already sounds like COMPLETE gibberish to me: https://rdouglasfields.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/speech16-syllables-a-sec.wav https://rdouglasfields.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/speech16-... (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-can-some-blind-people-process/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-can-some-blind...) Makes you wonder who the "impaired" ones are.