El habla (del latín fabŭla) se puede referir propiamente a un acto de habla o la realización de una serie de formas lingüísticas por parte de un hablante. \n* En el primer sentido un acto de habla es un acto de voluntad e inteligencia que ocupa una persona para poder producir una lengua y comunicarse. Desde esta perspectiva, como acto individual, se opone a la lengua, que es social, pero están relacionadas entre si ya que una depende directamente de la otra, la lengua necesita del habla para que esta se produzca y el habla necesita de la lengua para ser comprensible. Desde un punto de vista de la psicolingüística, el habla es la materialización individual de los pensamientos de una persona, es la manera en que cada individuo usa la lengua. Así el habla caracteriza la conducta lingüística de un hablante individual, por lo tanto, se expresa en nociones de lo que somos. Es el acto de emitir un mensaje basado en el conocimiento y experiencias de cada individuo, de acuerdo con su estilo propio y personal. \n* En el segundo sentido, el de la lingüística descriptiva, es tradicional la diferencia entre "lengua y habla" (langue et parole) introducida por Ferdinand de Saussure en su Curso de lingüística general. El habla habla sería una selección asociativa entre imágenes acústicas y conceptos que tiene acuñados un hablante en su cerebro y el acto voluntario de fono-articulación.

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Speech is the vocalized form of communication based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large (usually about 1,000 different words) vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units (phonemes). These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their sets of speech sound units differ, creating many thousands of different, and mutually unintelligible, human languages. Most human speakers are able to communicate in two or more of them, hence being polyglots. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also enable them to sing. A gestural form of human communication exists for the deaf in the form of sign language. Speech in some cultures has become the basis of a written language, often one that differs in its vocabulary, syntax and phonetics from its associated spoken one, a situation called diglossia. In addition to its use in communication, it is suggested by some psychologists such as Vygotsky that speech is internally used in mental processes to enhance and organize cognition in the form of an interior monologue. Speech is researched in terms of the speech production and speech perception of the sounds used in vocal language. Other research topics concern speech repetition, the ability to map heard spoken words into the vocalizations needed to recreate them, which plays a key role in vocabulary expansion in children and speech errors. Several academic disciplines study these; including acoustics, psychology, speech pathology, linguistics, cognitive science, communication studies, otolaryngology and computer science. Another area of research is how the human brain in its different areas such as the Broca's area and Wernicke's area underlies speech. It is controversial how far human speech is unique; in that animals also communicate with vocalizations. While none in the wild have compatibly large vocabularies, research upon the nonverbal abilities of language trained apes such as Washoe and Kanzi raises the possibility that they might have these capabilities. The origins of speech are unknown and subject to much debate and speculation.

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