Speech (disambiguation)

Speech is the vocal form of human communication.

Speech or speaking may also refer to:

• Spoken language
• Discourse
• Animal language, forms of animal communication that are considered to show similarities to human language
  • Talking animal or speaking animal, any non-human animal which produces sounds or gestures resembling those of a human
• Connected speech in linguistics, a continuous sequence of sounds forming utterances or conversations in spoken language
• Public speaking, a process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner
• Speech imitation, the saying by one individual of the spoken vocalizations made by another individual
• Speech synthesis, the artificial production of human speech language
• Right speech, a component of the Noble Eightfold Path in Buddhism

People

• Speech (rapper) (born 1968), an American rapper and musician
• Speech Debelle (born 1983), a British rapper and Mercury Prize winner

See also

• The Speech (disambiguation)
• List of speeches
• Speak (disambiguation)
• Speech sound