In one embodiment, the parameter extractor 1842 may split the sensor signals 1806 into speech subcomponents, as described and illustrated above with respect to FIG. 3. The speech subcomponents may include one or more of phonemes of the received sensor (speech) signals 1806, frequencies of the received sensor signals 1806, formants of the received sensor signals 1806, and semantics of the received sensor signals 1806. A phoneme is any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and tin the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat. A formant refers to each of several prominent bands of frequency that determine the phonetic quality of vowels in the sensor signals 1806. Semantics may include logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics (word relations), or conceptual semantics (the cognitive structure of meaning). The parameters related to speech phonemes extracted from the sensor signals 1806 may be used to create different arrangements of activated cutaneous actuators 1822 and different haptic patterns on the body 1826, wherein each pattern may be associated with a particular phoneme.
