There could be a &quot;feed forward&quot; mechanism in language processing, which gets involved in reading also. That is to say, when you hear speech, perhaps that same &quot;reading voice&quot; is <i>also</i> there: perhaps the speech that you&#x27;re hearing is synthesized into a voice, and those voices are compared, which reinforces whether or not you &quot;heard it right&quot;, and perhaps this takes place in a loop which clarifies the speech.