Communication noise refers to influences on effective communication that influence the interpretation of conversations.

Forms of communication noise include psychological noise, physical noise, physiological and semantic noise.

While often looked over, communication noise can have a profound impact both on our perception of interactions with others and our analysis of our own communication proficiency.

What we're experiencing here is a whiteout- excess communications noise being flushed into the area, so much that it simply outshouts everything else, floods every frequency, and clogs the gains."

In the presence of "communication noise" on the transmission channel (air, in this case), reception and decoding of content may be faulty, and thus the speech act may not achieve the desired effect.