is it possible to talk and listen at the same time?

Answer 1

Yes and no. It's called 'online processing', or trying to create meaningful output whilst making sense of continuous input. If you're talking and someone yells your name, or shouts your order in a café, or you overhear an interesting word in someone else's conversation, you should pick it up, but let's say you want to continue listening to that conversation whilst still talking to your friend, you will find your own speech production beginning to stall, and if you return your attention back to your speech, then at best, you will only pick up odd words. In short, you should be able to comprehend brief moments of input, but for longer periods, the quality of either input and production, or both, will deteriorate.

Answer 2

Easy, I usually have BBC radio four from my little radio in my earphones.
Not only can I listen to the radio and talk, I can also carry on a conversation with someone else and continue understanding what is going on on the radio.
Anyone can talk and listen at the same time, if they can hear their own voice.

Answer 3

DEFINITELY FOR A WOMAN, we are multi taskers. It's a fact that men are limited, if you will, at listening to or seeing more than one thing at a time. That's why there insurance is higher than ours. They can't drive & listen to music at the same time. Let alone talk and listen, that is asking a little to much! They need to stick to one thing at a time, they seem to do that very well. The lord made us like that cause he knew men would never make it on there own!

Answer 4

No it isn't. Try this experiment. Try to listen to a conversation on the radio ( while your recording it ) while your saying anything you please. Now, before you play the radio recording back, can you tell me what it said ? No you can't. You can switch your attention rapidly between the two, but you can't literally talk and listen at the same time. The brain can't work this way. The brain is trying to speak verbally, while trying to listen verbally-IMPOSSIBLE.

Answer 5

I agree with Heather, and I am a man,however, only today I was multi-tasking. Reading the paper, listening to the radio, blowing my nose and having a dunk all at the same time. Honest, I'd never lie maybe.

Answer 6

try it and come to your own conclusion. Sit with a friend andboth of you talk at once about different topics. Do this forabout 2 minutes, than see if you can summerize what the other has said. You will get your answer.

Answer 7

usually yes
however I must stress one small factor thou
it's very difficult for a deaf person to do just that talk and listen at the same time
how I know
well I'm deaf anyhows

Answer 8

Yes, hearing sense is always present even when you are
talking you can hear yourself. However your brain does suppress
hearing when you are talking. Have you noticed that people with
a hearing deficiency will talk louder than those that can hear. Try
putting ear plugs and talk, you will then only hear your inner voice,
and you will be asked by others "why are you speaking so loud".

Answer 9

yep, i used to do it all the time. i worked at a department store where we had to wear headsets, and there were many times i would be talking to someone while listening to another person on the headset. you just need to get used to it...it was hard at first, but it sort of grew on me.

Answer 10

yes it is, you can talk and listen to yourself at the same time