Two experiments are presented which examine whether the voice bar in [b] and [d]contains information relevant to the identity of the stop consonant and the following vowel. The results indicate that listeners can exploit consonantal place‐of‐articulation information contained in the voice bars. The ability of the subjects to ascertain the identity of the vowel following the voice bar was extremely limited, even after a training period; the confusions again point to the influence of consonantal place‐of‐articulation information.