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Why can I hear voices, but not understand them clearly?

This is a common complaint, and there are a number of reasons this may occur:

You have a hearing loss in the higher speech frequencies where the soft consonants exist. The consonants more than the vowels are important to uderstanding speech. For example, the difference among the words bat, sat, cat, that, mat, fat and hat are the initial consonants.
Your ability to filter out speech from background noise has been damaged by your hearing loss. If this is the case then following conversation in a restaurant or at a meeting will be more difficult.
If a person is talking softly, an individual with a high frequency hearing loss will not be able to hear the weak consonants. This causes the speech to be weaker than the background noise and therefore nearly impossible to be understood clearly.

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