Introducing speech communication

Research on speech communication investigates how speech is produced and how it is perceived. Researchers and practitioners who engage with speech communication come from various disciplines, such as audiology, computer science, engineering, linguistics, psychology, and speech pathology. Speech communication researchers seek to understand the acoustic signal as produced by a speaker or perceived by a listener. Research under the speech communication technical committee overlaps with other technical committees. In this presentation, I provide brief illustrations of various topics within speech communication, focusing on how people perceive and produce speech to communicate in the world's languages.