# speaker

The contributor was a principal speaker in a resource that consists of a recording, a film, or a transcription of a recorded resource.

Speakers are those whose voices predominate in a recorded or filmed resource. (The resource may be a transcription of that recording.)

**Examples**: \
Participants using [spoken language](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/defined-terms/spokenlanguage) in a recorded conversation, elicitation session, or informal narration would be termed Speakers. \
Audience members who do not participate beyond the occasional backchannel would be termed [responders](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/properties/responder).

The value of this property is expected to be one of the types:\
[schema:Person](https://schema.org/Person)\
[schema:Organization](https://schema.org/Organization)

This property is used on the type:\
[schema:CreativeWork](https://schema.org/CreativeWork)

[OLAC](http://www.language-archives.org/REC/role.html#speaker)

[List of participant roles](https://ldaca.gitbook.io/metadata-for-language-data/readme/participants).