An engineer designs a speech recognition system for medical transcriptions. If background noise increases, which consequence follows regarding semantic interpretation?

💡 Explanation

Increased background noise reduces the signal-to-noise ratio; therefore the clarity of speech input degrades, because semantic ambiguity resolution depends on accurate phonetic transcription. The mechanism of acoustic masking causes words to become indistinct, rather than other forms of linguistic improvement.

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