Summary

Any vibration in the air that is capable of being heard by human ears is defined as sound in a scientific sense. In human-computer interaction we are concerned with the impact of speech sounds as well as non-speech sounds. In this chapter we looked at the nature of sound. In the next chapter we look at the nature of language.

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