Voice Communication

Abstract

Man’s primary method of communication is speech. He is unique in his ability to transmit information with his voice. Of the myriad varieties of life sharing our world, only man has developed the vocal means for coding and conveying information beyond a rudimentary stage. It is more to his credit that he has developed the facility from apparatus designed to subserve other, more vital purposes.

“Nature, as we often say, makes nothing in vain, and man is the only animal whom she has endowed with the gift of speech. And whereas mere voice is but an indication of pleasure or pain, and is therefore found in other animals, the power of speech is intended to set forth the expedient and inexpedient, and therefore likewise the just and the unjust. And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.”

Aristotle, Politics