For these simultaneous bilingual listeners, bilingualism does not negatively affect English speech recognition across a combination of masker (steady-state pink noise, two-talker babble), SNR (0 to -16 dB), and presentation modality (AO, AV). These findings suggest that despite increasing linguistic demands that may arise from two competing lexicons, simultaneous bilingual listeners have the ability to perform equally to monolinguals on the identification of degraded target words in masked sentences.