> It's not language. It's basically mimicking humans. I owned a parrot for a few years. The speech she had was like a tape recorder, she could mostly only play

> It's not language. It's basically mimicking humans. I owned a parrot for a few years. The speech she had was like a tape recorder, she could mostly only play back what she heard in an identical manner. But she was able to play back pieces of appropriate snippets in the right context to express herself to a level that I'd call it talking. It's not normal "speech", but if you gave an otherwise normal human with damaged speech centers in their brain a tape recorder it's very much like that.