title: Acoustics in human communication: evolving ideas about the nature of speech.
abstract: This paper discusses changes in attitude toward the nature of speech during the past half century. After reviewing early views on the subject, it considers the role of speech spectrograms, speech articulation, speech perception, messages and computers, and the nature of fluent speech.
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003201:Computers; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D008960:Models, Psychological; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology