speech communication

Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large (usually about 1,000 different words) vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their set of speech sound units differ, creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Most human speakers are able to communicate in two or more of them, hence being polyglots. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also provide humans with the ability to  sing.

Speech Communication is een internationaal, aan collegiale toetsing onderworpen wetenschappelijk tijdschrift op het gebied van de  fonetiek. De naam wordt in literatuurverwijzingen meestal afgekort tot Speech Comm. Het wordt uitgegeven door Elsevier namens de European Association for Signal Processing en verschijnt maandelijks.