Speaker
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As a person:
- A speaker can be anyone who speaks, especially when giving a speech, or lecture, especially a skilled orator (see also public speaking).
- Speaker (politics), in politics, the presiding officer in many legislative assemblies.
- In linguistics, a speaker is who utters a message, and is typically the center of deixis in the message; (s)he refers to himself or herself with the first-person pronoun.
- Also in linguistics, a speaker is a user of a spoken language, as opposed to a signer, a user of a sign language; or anyone who masters and uses a language, while only a native speaker has it as his or her mother tongue.
- Computer speaker, a computer peripheral that reproduces speech and/or music.
- Loudspeaker, an electronic device used to transform varying electric current into audible sound.
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