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