Speech

Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, such as informing, declaring, asking, persuading, directing; acts may vary in various aspects like enunciation, intonation, loudness, and tempo to convey meaning.

Extends: Speech, [Oral communication](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Oral communication), Language, [Animal sounds](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Animal sounds), [Articles containing video clips](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Articles containing video clips)