Fellbaum, Klaus-RüdigerDüsterhöft, AntjeThalheim, Bernhard2019-11-142019-11-1420033-88579-358-Xhttps://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/29879This 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.enText/Conference Paper1617-5468