Most of us find it impressive to see a dog that knows more than a handful of basic commands, but that's small potatoes compared to these amazing animals who can actually speak. Take N'kisi (the parrot above), for example...

It's an apocalyptic scenario: In 1983, Ronald Reag...  ...uld have. In any case, the Queen was ready with a speech , drafted by the British government, to urge Brito...  ...l to survive cannot be broken." The speech concludes by saying the Queen's message to the na...  ...God Bless you all....

A shitty speech therapist, Yoda had. @NoogsCorner

John Flammang Schrank is not as well-known a name...  ...tory of how Roosevelt gave his intended hour-long speech before going to the hospital! He took the podium...  ...manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech , and there is a bullet—there is where the bulle...  ...t is in me now, so that I c...

Now that you know what is expected of you, you'll be able to prepare that little talk for your friend's upcoming wedding. Another gem from The Doghouse Diaries. Link -via Blame It On The Voices...

If parrots can learn words from humans, it's only logical that parrots can teach others how to speak those words. As it turns out, it's been happening so often that many people in Australia claimed to be hearing voices c...

(YouTube link) We brought you a video of this robo...  ...Japan to help hearing-impaired people with their speech . It was creepy enough back then, but now the mout...

(YouTube link) Forty-eight years ago today, J...  ...years ago today, JFK gave one of the most moving speeches in international relations on record. Unfortunate...  ...people remember this as the "I am a jelly donut" speech due to an unfortunate misconception over the arti...  ...However, my friend [who was i...

Writers are constantly told of the importance of e...  ...he winning websites were limited to an acceptance speech of only five words. Each had to really think abou...  ...eally think about what was important to say. Some speeches were funny, some political, some designed to leav...  ...ehind. And they came up w...

The following is an article from the science humor...  ...erns the influence of facial hair on audio-visual speech intelligibility in noise. It is known that watchi...  ...speaker’s face increases the intelligibility of speech in noisy environments (Grant and Seitz, 2000). By...  ...or a kind of natural impove...