It had one line to say, triggered by any sound of human speech.
I was already too changed to make normal human speech.
I'd long since lost the ability to understand human speech.
In terms of human speech, it carried a simple message.
He is clearly very intelligent and can understand human speech.
They can very quickly distinguish between human speech and other environmental sounds.
The final change is losing the ability of human speech.
The words were distorted and hard to understand, coming from a mouth never meant for human speech.
This must be what dogs hear in human speech, he thought.
It is considered to be "intelligent, and well read with the ability to understand human speech."