As shown in FIG. 17A, the haptic communication device 1720 receives the actuator signals 1718 and generates and transmits haptic vibrations 1724 to transmit information from the speech sounds 1702 or the textual message 1720 to the body 1726 of the user wearing the haptic communication device 1720. The haptic vibrations 1724 represent the speech sounds 1702 or the textual message 1720. The haptic communication device 1720 may include an array of cutaneous actuators 1722 that generates the haptic vibrations 1724. The cutaneous actuators 1722 are operably coupled over wired or wireless connections to the envelope encoder 1716 to generate the haptic vibrations 1724 based on the actuator signals 1718. The haptic communication device 1720 may include one or more processing units (e.g., a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a digital signal processor (DSP), a controller, a state machine, one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), one or more radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), or any combination of these) and a memory.
