History and development of the profession: ∑ History and development of the profession of SpeechLanguage Pathology (SLP) specifically in Nepal, neighboring countries and abroad. ∑ Major work activities of the SLP. ∑ Various settings of speech – language therapy service delivery. ∑ Professions concerned with communication disorders. Human communication: ∑ Definitions and components. ∑ Interdepen...

Secure speech communication has been of great importance in civil, commercial and military communication systems. As speech communication becomes widely used and even more vulnerable, the importance of providing a high level of security becomes a major issue. The main objective of this paper is to increase the security, and to remove the redundancy for speech communication system under the glob...

Abstract   Recent developments in robotics automation have motivated researchers to improve the efficiency of interactive systems by making a natural man-machine interaction. Since speech is the most popular method of communication, recognizing human emotions from speech signal becomes a challenging research topic known as Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). In this study, we propose a Persian em...

Intercultural communication is concerned with communication across cultures. Since cultures as well as languages differ from one another in significant ways, speakers conceptualize the world around them in different ways. These cultural conceptualizations form part of the collective cognition of a speech community or cultural group. This paper is an attempt to delineate some cultural schemas in...

This paper deals with speech communication aspects with an accent on speech dialogues, in which one communication partner is a computer. After some basic definitions, we discuss the speech components of a man-machine dialogue, namely speech recognition and speech synthesis. It will be shown that a computer is far away from human’s ability to recognise or understand speech.