Speech
Speech, speaking, or vocal communication was the expression of the ability to express communication using one's mouth and vocal cords to articulate sounds, such as a voice.

Processing speech 
In humanoids, the speech center was the part of the brain capable of producing speech. () 

On the Soong-type android, the primary speech processors produced speech. () The Federation's computer voice was generated by speech processors as well. ()

Starfleet's EMH program interacts with its patients through a number of speech recognition protocols. ()

Speech in medicine 
 Dyslexia
 
 Speech pattern
 Speech therapy
 Stutter

Speech for telepaths 
When Lwaxana Troi was visiting the , she told Deanna Troi to communicate telepathically instead of speaking. Despite this, she spoke frequently. ()

The Cairn were physically capable of speaking, but preferred to use telepathy. When they wanted to join the United Federation of Planets, they began to learn to speak in order to communicate with species incapable of telepathy. ()

See also 
 Figure of speech
 Non-verbal communication

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