ASD and mumbling?

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I may be way off here, but could my mumbling and asperger's be related?

Ive always been difficult to understand, especially when younger, I don't realise I'm doing it but people tell me I mumble or sometimes translate for me if they know me well. I can also tell when I hear myself back on video or recorder, my words lack any clear annunciation and run together and I often go quiet and low making it even harder.

The thing is, the only other person I know with this issue is my aspie brother. Is there any reason I might mumble or have unclear speech due to my ASD?

I think mumbling is part of the reluctance or inability to engage with the rest of society.

I am non-aggressive. I have been told that I mumble.
I get interrupted while I'm still talking very often.

I see it as the fault of the other people due to their paying attention to other things besides the content of the communication.
Most people communicate to serve emotional needs (identity thinking), and I communicate for information transfer.

Mumbling would be one of a range of verbal communication issues. Mumbling, waffling and indeterminate noise responses to say 'yes', 'no' or simply 'hello' come to mind.

I have always been softly spoken and speak very deliberately and often at length if allowed. I often have people who tell me to speak up. Others simply aren't listening anyway and cut me off at some point and continue along a separate line of discussion. I have made conscious efforts to speak loudly and more deliberately but even when I think I'm shouting, its not enough (apparently). My daughter often says to me that I take a long time to say anything.

My own perception of all this is that people in general do not think rationally or systematically about things in general and are far too driven by emotionally charged 'point-scoring' and 'sound bites'.

I have ongoing problems with acknowledging what a person has said. To acknowledge what a person has said, I make this sound (a sort of low level grunt). It is understood to mean that I want them to repeat what they are saying because I didn't hear them.

Most people seem to be able to effortlessly make gestures and say 'hello' or 'goodbye' by means of their own unique vernacular slang that is entirely understood and socially accepted. In my case, when (for example) I pass by the receptionist in the morning, I say something like 'Morning' or 'Cya' but it inevitably sounds like a bird chirp or as if I'm in a bad mood. This issue is an ongoing problem until people get to know me and understand my particular communication'style' (if it can be called that) and make allowances for it.

While people say I mumble, speak too softly and waffle, I similarly have to often stop people and ask them to repeat what they are saying because I did not hear them or did not understand what they are saying. As a result people often think I am partially deaf which is not the case. Its quite clear that ASD and NT people are on very different audio frequencies.

am not aspie,but dad [informaly diagnosed with aspergers] mumbles so badly he is like a ventriloquist-his mouth just doesnt move when he speaks and very few people know what he is saying,he also has eating issues;very sloppy noisy eater,ends up with more on his clothes than in his mouth.

for those with AS or other spectrum conditions who mumble perhaps its to do with having slight oral motor difficulties.

I've been told by a few people that I mumble or have a rumble over the years. I have no problem with that. A couple of people told me that I needed speech therapy to correct it. I never saw it as anything that needed correcting. I'd rather keep my rumble than have a female voice. I'd rather sound the way I feel, which is male than sound the way people feel that I "should".

I am very softly spoken and sometimes mumble. I get asked to repeat myself a lot. I don't want to talk louder though. Why should I speak up (and I'm not even sure I can) when they could just listen better? People don't seem to really listen much of the time.

i mumble, sometimes even whisper when i talk and i'm asked to repeat myself often. it has been getting better, though.
i occasionally talk to myself when i'm stressed out. i use less english as time passes.