speaker vs talking head

talking head vs speaker

speaker and talking head both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
speaker	Yes	No	No	No
talking head	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, talking head is a hyponym of speaker; that is, talking head is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than speaker:

speaker: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
talking head: a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen

Other hyponyms of speaker include alliterator, caller-up, caller, phoner, telephoner, babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter, conversationalist, conversationist, schmoozer, dictator, drawler, driveller, jabberer, ejaculator, growler, asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner, lecturer, lisper, mentioner, motormouth, mumbler, murmurer, mutterer, narrator, storyteller, teller, orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker, prattler, ranter, raver, reciter, native speaker, stammerer, stutterer, stentor, venter, vociferator, voicer, wailer, whisperer, informant, witness, witnesser.

speaker (noun)	talking head (noun)
electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance	a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)

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