Allow
Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.
Speak to
Both terms in one sentence
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Interestingly, the Doctor also seems to speak to horses, cats, and babies, but the TARDIS doesn't allow his companions to.
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In Mass Effect 3, you can speak to a Quarian engineer who was mortally wounded fighting the Geth to allow his crewmates time to escape.
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He cut it off himself, on advice from the psychopomps, as a 'flesh antenna' to allow him to speak to his dead wife.
Source: An Arm and a Leg
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