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Speech Science As A Field of Psychology: - The Use of Complex Language Is A Trait

Speech science is a field that explores the biological and physical aspects of spoken language, emphasizing its unique role in human communication and society. It has applications in various industries, including speech recognition, synthesis, forensic analysis, language teaching, and therapy for speech disorders. The field has its roots in phonetics and contributes significantly to technologies that enhance communication and monitor health.

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Speech Science As A Field of Psychology: - The Use of Complex Language Is A Trait

Speech science is a field that explores the biological and physical aspects of spoken language, emphasizing its unique role in human communication and society. It has applications in various industries, including speech recognition, synthesis, forensic analysis, language teaching, and therapy for speech disorders. The field has its roots in phonetics and contributes significantly to technologies that enhance communication and monitor health.

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Speech science as a field of psychology

• The use of complex language is a trait


unique
To humans not shared by even our closet
primate cousins. There is a good argument
to made that it is our facility for linguistic
communication that has made human
society possible and given us civilization,
arts, science and technology
• 5 million years- hominins
• 200,000 years almost human
language phenomenon
• 5000 only in its spoken form
• 2000 thousand years is not in
evolutionary time
Speech science seeks to understand how
the physical character of spoken language
arises from this biological contingency
Contingency means that to understand
Spoken communication we must understand
what constrains the form of speech and
The use of speech
Involve the study how vocal apparatus
Generates sounds or of how sounds
What does speech science study
Speech communication
Involving speech productions
Involving speech perceptions

Speech science also provides the


Foundations for a multi billions dollars industry
In speech technology.
Speech science has its origins in phonetics,
which is the branch of linguistics that studies
the sounds of speech. In this definition
“sounds” refers not just to noises
but to the pieces of the linguistics code used
to communicate
Meaning
Speech science concepts have value in
building applications such as:
Speech Recognition
- Systems for the conversation of speech to
text, for spoken dialogue with computers or for
executing spoken commands
- Systems for identifying individuals or language groups
by the way they speak
Speech Synthesis
-Systems for converting text to
speech or (Together with natural
language generations)
concept to speech
Forensic speaker comparison
-Study of recordings of the speech of
perpetrators of crimes to provide
evidence for or against the guilt of a
suspect
Language Pronunciation Teaching
-Systems for the teaching and
assessment of pronunciation used
in second language learning
Assessment and therapy for disorders
of speech And hearing
- Technologies for the assessment
of communication disorders, for the
provision of therapeutic procedure, or
for communication aids.
Monitoring of well-being and mood
- Technologies for using changes in
the voice to monitor physical and
mental health

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