DeaddyRuxpin t1_iu40mqg wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:58 AM

Since signing is often slower than speaking you would finish talking and the sound arrives before the signing could finish making signing the slower form of communication. However, now I want to know where the break even point is. How far away do you need to be for signing out a speech to arrive before the sound of that speech arrives (assuming the sound could travel infinitely far without degrading and we could see the signing from an infinite distance away).

eternalankh t1_iu5fmqa wrote on October 28, 2022 at 6:04 PM

The break even point would be:

343(x - y)

where 'x' is the length of the signed speech (in seconds) and 'y' is the length of the spoken speech (in seconds).

This gives you the answer in meters.