Abstract: An apparatus for communication by transmitting voice signals to cutaneous nerve receptors, includes a transducer for stimulating the receptors, an amplifier for driving the transducer and a microphone for applying voice signals to the amplifier. By utilizing this apparatus, the hearing structure of the ear can be partially or wholly bypassed, thus providing another communication channel which can be used, for example, to help the deaf to communicate and to communicate when "noise" interferes with normal "hearing".