The primary method of interaction between individuals is communication. In the case speech-impaired people, communication them and normal people not understandable by latter as former communicates through gestures sign language. speech-impaired. Today, Internet Things (IoT) can be used for gesture recognition to convert into audible speech. this project, a prototype created such that or languag...

This special issue was launched in parallel with the “speech and face to face communication” workshop organized in Grenoble in October 2008 and dedicated to the memory of Christian Benoît who died in 1998. The aim of this workshop was to show how and why speech communication must be increasingly studied in a face-to-face perspective in continuation of Christian Benoît’s researches. Speech commu...

Statement of the problem. Idioms, due to their special features as units language, constantly attract attention Russian linguists. Despite a significant number studies devoted them, idioms can hardly be considered studied comprehensively. In particular, clarifications are needed for so-called “idiomatic innovation,” that is, both intentional and erroneous transformations (changes in composition...

Studies of nonhuman primate communication are often motivated by the desire to shed light on evolution speech. In contrast human speech, vocal repertoires primates evolutionarily highly conserved. Within species-specific constraints, calls may vary in relation internal state caller or social experience. Receivers can use signalers’ predict upcoming events behavioral dispositions. Yet do not app...

Research on agent communication languages has typically taken the speech acts paradigm as its starting point. Despite their manifest attractions, speech-act models of communication have several serious disadvantages as a foundation for communication in artificial agent systems. In particular, it has proved to be extremely difficult to give a satisfactory semantics to speech-act based agent comm...