Even seniors who hear sounds relatively well often report that words sound garbled or mumbled, she noted, indicating a deterioration in hearing mechanisms that process complex speech.
Sometimes, though, packets are lost, which causes syllables, words or sentences to disappear and voices to sound garbled, as if the talkers are speaking in a fish tank.
I had studied English in India, but either my teacher spoke too quickly and used words I did not know or else I was so afraid that her words sounded garbled to my ears.
Loops and echoey recorded sounds, including garbled voices, could also join the mix, and eventually some pieces boiled over into crashing distortion.
"If multiple people try to talk, it can sound all garbled.
The synth-heavy, rock-tinged "Follow Us" sounded similarly garbled until it reached the sing-songy hook.
The sound is garbled and sometimes anesthetized, but, mostly, its brazen laziness feels like a corrective to overproduced and overconsidered mainstream hip-hop.
In 2012, scientists reported that a captive beluga had learned to make what sounded like garbled human speech, presumably in an attempt to mimic its human neighbours.
"Meskada" by Josh Sternberg is a police procedural with nice touches of noir and a feel for blue collar America, but the sound is garbled and the community conflicts muddily drawn.
His track, "Night Still Young," sounds like Peter Bjorn and John, garbled through dystopian radio waves and run through the house music ringer.
