talker vs talking head

talking head vs talker

talker and talking head both are nouns.

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

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

talker: 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 talker 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.

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

Difference between talker and talking head

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