I'd long since lost the ability to understand human speech.

I was already too changed to make normal human speech.

The final change is losing the ability of human speech.

This must be what dogs hear in human speech, he thought.

In terms of human speech, it carried a simple message.

And yet, for all its facility with Human speech it told us very little.

He is clearly very intelligent and can understand human speech.

It had one line to say, triggered by any sound of human speech.

"Where I come from there were several forms of human speech, sir."

They can very quickly distinguish between human speech and other environmental sounds.

Very little human speech was truthful, as she knew better than anyone else.

It is considered to be "intelligent, and well read with the ability to understand human speech."

The words were distorted and hard to understand, coming from a mouth never meant for human speech.

They answered her in human speech, for which she was grateful.

The Thing started to speak in the low, slow tones of human speech.

Linguistics is the study of human speech and its role in culture.

In some cultures, they are also said to be capable of human speech.

I had never, seemingly, heard human speech before and could guess only vaguely what was said.

They heard highly improbable human speech where nothing of the sort should be.

From that came a tinkling which was not of human speech.

If the cows had received the gift of human speech at that moment they would not have been able to make themselves heard.

"If you can understand human speech, come down and surrender.

Most, however, possess large amounts of intelligence and human speech.

Well, she could not be held responsible for the inadequacies of human speech!

But such associations did "not imply any understanding of what human speech is and means."