#speaker__talker__utterer__verbalizer__verbaliser  someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims"
  supertype:  articulator.communicator  someone who pronounces words
  subtype:  alliterator  a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration
  subtype:  caller-up__caller__phoner__telephoner  the person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone"
  subtype:  chatterer__babbler__prater__chatterbox__spouter  an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
  subtype:  conversationalist__schmoozer  someone skilled at conversation
     subtype:  deipnosophist  someone skilled at across-the-table chit chat
     subtype:  conversational_partner__interlocutor  a person who takes part in a conversation
  subtype:  drawler  someone who speaks with a drawl
  subtype:  jabberer__driveller  someone whose talk is trivial drivel
  subtype:  ejaculator  a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation
  subtype:  growler.speaker  a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl
  subtype:  inquirer__enquirer__questioner__querier__asker  someone who asks a question
     subtype:  cross-examiner__crossexaminer__cross-questioner__crossquestioner  someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier)
     subtype:  quizzer__examiner__tester  someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications
     subtype:  inquisitor__interrogator  a questioner who is excessively harsh
     subtype:  interviewer  a person who conducts an interview
     subtype:  pollster__poll_taker__headcounter  someone who conducts surveys of public opinion; "a pollster conducts public opinion polls"; "a headcounter counts heads"
  subtype:  lecturer  someone who lectures professionally
     instance:  Helen_Adams_Keller__Keller__Helen_Keller
  subtype:  lisper  a speaker who lisps
  subtype:  mentioner  a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally
  subtype:  mutterer__mumbler  a person who speaks indistinctly
  subtype:  narrator__storyteller__teller  someone who tells a story
     subtype:  anecdotist__raconteur  a person skilled in telling anecdotes
        instance:  Karl_Friedrich_Hieronymus_von_Munchhausen__Munchhausen__Munchausen__Baron_Munchausen
     subtype:  fabulist  a person who tells or invents fables
        instance:  Aesop
     subtype:  griot  a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village
  subtype:  orator__speechmaker__rhetorician__public_speaker__speechifier  a person who delivers a speech or oration
     subtype:  eulogist__panegyrist  an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics
     subtype:  demagogue__demagog__rabble-rouser  an orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience
     subtype:  elocutionist  a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery
     subtype:  haranguer  a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech
     subtype:  spellbinder  an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound
     subtype:  tub-thumper__tubthumper  a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker
     instance:  Edmund_Burke__Burke  Marcus_Tullius_Cicero__Cicero__Tully  Demosthenes  Patrick_Henry__Henry  Isocrates
  subtype:  prattler  someone who speaks in a childish way
  subtype:  ranter__raver  someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner
  subtype:  reciter  someone who recites from memory
  subtype:  stammerer__stutterer  someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions
  subtype:  talking_head__talkinghead  a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen
  subtype:  vociferator  a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest)
  subtype:  voicer  a speaker who voices an opinion
  subtype:  wailer  a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries
  subtype:  whisperer  one who speaks in a whisper
  subtype:  witnesser__witness__informant  someone who sees an event and reports what happened
     subtype:  attester__attestant  someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something
     subtype:  testifier__deponent  a person who testifies or gives a deposition

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