intelligibilitysubstantiv The quality of being understandable or comprehensible. The teacher's clear explanations improved the intelligibility of the complex subject matter.
The degree to which speech or writing can be understood by a listener or reader. The new software was designed to enhance the intelligibility of voice recordings in noisy environments.
A quantitative metric used in phonetics to express the proportion of speech units correctly perceived by listeners. In their study of speech disorders, clinicians tracked the intelligibility of each patient's utterances over time.