Understanding what is said and recognising the identity of the speaker are two important tasks that the human brain is faced with in auditory communication. For a long time, neuroscientific models of auditory communication have focused mostly on auditory language and voice-sensitive cerebral cortex regions to explain speech and voice-identity recognition. However, we now know that the brain uses even more complex processing strategies for recognising auditory communication signals, such as the recruitment of dedicated visual face areas. In my talk, I will present a short overview on our neuroscientific findings how visual face areas help processing auditory communication signals. I will then present our current work in which we translate our neuroscience findings to computational models.