We will soon be floating in a sea of devices. Most of them will be part of the interconnected Web of mechanisms that will constitute the Internet of Things (IoT). The overwhelming majority of them will talk to each other but not to humans. This presentation focuses on the much smaller set of devices that are articulate. Some articulate mechanisms translate information that bubbles to the surface of the IoT into natural-language messages for humans and they transmit spoken commands given by humans to other IoT devices. One union of speech-enabled and machine-to-machine IoT devices is the smart home. Specifically, this session explores smart-home technology for eldercare. Other connected devices communicate directly between the Internet and humans. This session also focuses on a rapidly growing group of such devices: toys. Combined, these discussions will reveal emerging opportunities for speech and language processing.