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Speech (disambiguation)

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Speech is the vocal form of human communication.

Speech or speaking may also refer to:

  • Public speaking, a process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner
  • Manner of articulation in articulatory phonetics, the configuration and interaction of speech organs such as the tongue, lips, and palate when making a speech sound
  • Speech imitation, the saying by one individual of the spoken vocalizations made by another individual
  • 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 language
  • Speech (rapper) (born 1968), an American rapper and musician
  • Speech Debelle (born 1983), a British rapper and Mercury Prize winner
  • Speech synthesis, the artificial production of human speech
  • Right speech, a component of the Noble Eightfold Path in Buddhism
  • Connected speech in linguistics, a continuous sequence of sounds forming utterances or conversations in spoken language

See also